Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
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 |
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| Watts Summit (GBR) | 83° 12' 00.0" S | 50° 31' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 111846
Place ID: 15788
rising to c. 1800m at SW corner of Lexington Table, Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964; following field work by USGS from 1965, named after Ray- mond D. Watts, USGS geophysicist in the area, 1978-79 (APC, 1980, p.5). Watts Summit (USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1988). |
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| Watts Summit (USA) | 83° 12' 00.0" S | 50° 31' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 133478
Place ID: 15788
A peak rising to 1,785 m in the SW corner of Lexington Table, Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS in 1967 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1964. Named in 1979 by US-ACAN after Raymond D. Watts, USGS geophysicist who worked in the Forrestal Range and Dufek Massif, 1978-79. |
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