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 Borchgrevink (USA) | 72° 07' 00.0" S | 23° 08' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122733
Place ID: 1601
Mountain, 2,390 m, standing 3 mi S of Tanngarden Peaks in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named for Otto Borchgrevink, leader of the Norwegian whaling expedition 1930-31, which mapped the coast of Antarctica from 51 30 to 59 East. |
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| Mount Schutz (AUS) | 69° 46' 00.1" S | 159° 16' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1601
Place ID: 12880
A mountain about 28 km SSE of Parkinson Peak in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Lieut. Cmdr. A.C. Schutz, Jnr, USN co-pilot and aircraft commander during US Operations Deepfreeze 67 and 68. |
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| Otto Borchgrevinkfjellet (NOR) | 72° 07' 00.0" S | 22° 51' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 115723
Place ID: 1601
10 km long mountain between Widerøefjellet and H.E.Hansenbreen in the middle of Sør-Rondane. After Otto M. Borchgrevink, captain with Antarctic 1931. |
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