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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| Borg Island (AUS) | 66° 57' 48.6" S | 57° 38' 04.6" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1058
Place ID: 1609
An island about 2 km long in the eastern part of the Øygarden Group. |
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| Borg Island (USA) | 66° 58' 00.0" S | 57° 35' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 122741
Place ID: 1609
Island 1 mi long in the eastern part of the Oygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and called by them Borgoy (castle island). |
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| Mount Riiser-Larsen (AUS) | 66° 46' 17.7" S | 50° 46' 12.8" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1609
Place ID: 12148
A prominent peak of the Tula Mountains, on the eastern side of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 or 14 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31). Named lby Sir Douglas Mawson after Capt. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, leader of a Norwegian expedition in the Norvegia (1929-30), which also explored the area. An ANARE party led by Phillip Law made a landing from a motor-launch at the foot of the mountain on 14 February, 1958. |
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