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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| Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg (NZL) | 85° 39' 00.0" S | 165° 08' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 114694
Place ID: 15834
A mountain, 3505m high, standing about 3 miles south-south-west of Mt Ruth Gade, between Isaiah Bowman and Cooper Glaciers in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by Amundsen in December 1911 on the journey to the South Pole. Named by him for Alice Wedel-Jarlsberg, wife of a Norwegian diplomat. |
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| Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg (USA) | 85° 39' 00.0" S | 165° 08' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 133523
Place ID: 15834
An ice-covered mountain between Cooper and Bowman Glaciers, standing 2 mi SW of Mount Ruth Gade in the Quarles Range. Discovered in December 1911 by Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Alice Wedel-Jarlsberg, wife of a Norwegian diplomat. |
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