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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| Wooden Peak (GBR) | 66° 08' 00.0" S | 65° 35' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 111989
Place ID: 16200
rising to c.900m SE of Black Head, Holtedahl Bay, Graham Coast. The name IÁle Waldeck-Rousseau was applied collectively to this feature and Waldeck Peak (q.v.) by FAE, 1908-10 (Bongrain, 1914, vue 18 following p.60). Following air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, the peak was named Wooden Peak after Frederick Edward Wooden (b.1923), FIDS surveyor, "Danco Island", 1956-57, and "Prospect Point", 1957-58 (also attached to RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1957-58); assistant to Secretary, APC, 1958-61 (APC, 1959a, p.12). |
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| Wooden Peak (USA) | 66° 08' 00.0" S | 65° 35' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 133836
Place ID: 16200
Peak 2 mi SE of Black Head on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 for Frederick E. Wooden, FIDS surveyor at Danco Island in 1956 and at Prospect Point in 1957. Wooden was also attached to the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit which worked in the area in 1957-58. |
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