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
Wegenerisen (NOR) 72° 30' 00.0" S 8° 00' 00.0" E
Name ID: 116352 Place ID: 15847

The inland ice S of Fimbulheimen. After Alfred Wegener, 1880-1930, meteorologist and Greenland researcher.

Wegenerisen (RUS) 73° 00' 00.0" S 9° 00' 00.0" E
Name ID: 121338 Place ID: 15847

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