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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| Borradaile Island (NZL) | 66° 35' 00.0" S | 162° 45' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 112842
Place ID: 1628
An island in the Balleny Islands. It is about 2 miles long and 1 mile wide, lying about 5 miles southward of the south-eastern extremity of Young Island. Discovered in February 1839 by Balleny who named it for W Borradaile, one of the seven London merchants who joined wit hCharles Enderby in sending out the expedition. |
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| Borradaile Island (RUS) | 66° 32' 00.0" S | 162° 46' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 117185 Place ID: 1628 | |||
| Borradaile Island (USA) | 66° 35' 00.0" S | 162° 45' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 122757
Place ID: 1628
One of the Balleny Islands, about 2 mi long and 1 mi wide, lying 4 mi southeastward of Young Island. Discovered in February 1839 by John Balleny, who named it for W. Borradaile, one of the merchants who united with Charles Enderby in sending out the expedition. |
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| Mount Gudmundson (AUS) | 79° 13' 00.1" S | 157° 51' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1628
Place ID: 5758
A mountain about 2,040 m above sea level, mainly ice-free, situated 11 km north-east of Fault Bluff. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after J.P. Gudmunson USN, explosive expert who wintered at Little America V in 1957; he blasted the foundation for the nuclear power plant at McMurdo Station during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1961. |
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