SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.

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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Mount Waldron (RUS) 78° 27' 00.0" S 84° 54' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 121292 Place ID: 15669

Mount Waldron (USA) 78° 27' 00.0" S 84° 53' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 133376 Place ID: 15669

A mountain (3,100 m) 3 mi N of Mount Tuck, surmounting the ridge between Dater and Hansen Glaciers in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by USN Squadron VX-6 on photographic flights of Dec. 14-15, 1959, and mapped from these photos by USGS. Named by US-ACAN for Kenneth L. Waldron, construction electrician, USN, a member of the IGY South Pole Station winter party, 1957.

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