Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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Borodin Mountain (RUS) | 71° 32' 00.0" S | 72° 41' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 117183 Place ID: 1626 | |||
Mount Borodin (GBR) | 71° 38' 00.0" S | 72° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 107879
Place ID: 1626
rising to c. 300m N of Boccherini Inlet, Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in December 1947; following map compilation from these photographs by FIDS in 1959, named after Alexander Porfyrievich Borodin (1834-87), Russian composer, in association with the names of other composers in this area ([in 71 32'S 72 41'W] APC, 1961, p.2; USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; Searle, 1963, end map; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.6). |
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Mount Borodin (USA) | 71° 36' 00.0" S | 72° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 122755
Place ID: 1626
Mainly ice-covered mountain, 695 m, with a rock outcrop on the E side, 7 mi NNE of Gluck Peak in the SW part of Alexander Island. A number of peaks in this general vicinity first appear on the maps of the RARE, 1947-48. This peak, apparently one of these, was mapped from the RARE air photos by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC after Alexander Borodin (1834-87), Russian composer. |
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Mount Hayne (AUS) | 70° 16' 41.5" S | 65° 01' 37.0" E | Mountain |
Name ID: 1626
Place ID: 6143
A mountain about 4 km north-west of Moore Pyramid on the northern side of the Scylla Glacier in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after J.R. Hayne, photographic officer with the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, who was a member of the Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1969. |
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