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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| Gustav Bull Mountains (AUS) | 67° 50' 53.0" S | 66° 14' 18.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1616
Place ID: 5808
A group of mountains on the coast of Mac.Robertson Lane, about 20 km south-west of Scullin Monolith, comprising Mount Hinks, Mount Kennedy, Mount Marsden and Mount Rivett. Land was seen in this vicinity during aeroplane flights by BANZARE under Mawson on 31 December 1929 and 5 January 1931. The area was visited by BANZARE on 13 February 1931, when a landing was made at Scullin Monolith. In January-February 1931, personnel on several Norwegian whalers sketched and photographed this coast and called these mountains Gustav Bull Fjella, after Captain Gustav Bull, at that time whaling manager on the factory ship Thorshammer. |
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| Mount Borgeson (RUS) | 72° 18' 00.0" S | 98° 48' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117180 Place ID: 1616 | |||
| Mount Borgeson (USA) | 72° 12' 00.0" S | 99° 00' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122747
Place ID: 1616
A peak 5 mi ESE of Smith Peak in the Walker Mountains of Thurston Island. First delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Named by US-ACAN for Warren T. Borgeson, topographic engineer with the USN Bellingshausen Sea Expedition, who established geodetic control points in this area in February 1960. |
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