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
Borghallet (NOR) 72° 25' 00.0" S 3° 32' 00.0" W
Name ID: 114911 Place ID: 1619

Ice-fall on the N side of Borgmassivet, Maudheimvidda. Borg=castle.

Borghallet (USA) 72° 25' 00.0" S 3° 30' 00.0" W
Name ID: 122749 Place ID: 1619

A gently-sloping plain of about 100 square miles, lying N of Borg Mountain in Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by NBSAE (1949-52) and named Borghallet (the castle slope).

Mount Bewsher (AUS) 70° 53' 45.4" S 65° 25' 34.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 1619 Place ID: 1291

A prominent, flat-topped mountain on the western end of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. It has a spur running north and a large moraine running north-east. The mountain is 1973 m high and 200 m above the plateau on the west; to the east there is a snow scarp and drop of 55 m.First visited by the ANARE southern party, 1956-57, led by W.G. Bewsher, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1956, after whom the feature was named.

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