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
Mount Zanuck (NZL) 85° 58' 00.0" S 151° 10' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 114778 Place ID: 16435

A large mountain massif about 4 miles wide and 10 miles long, surmounted by three sharp peaks in an east-west line, the highest of which rise to about 2700m, standing at the south side of the Albanus Glacier at the point where it joins the east side of Robert Scott Glacier in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by the Byrd AE, 1928-30, on Byrd's flight to the South Pole in November 1929. Visited in December 1934 by the Geolocial Party, led by Blackburn, of the Byrd AE, 1933-35. Named by Byrd for Darryl F Zanuck, official of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted the Byrd AE, 1933-35, in assembling motion-picture records, and later supplied the US Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41, with motion-picture projectors.

Mount Zanuck (USA) 85° 58' 00.0" S 151° 10' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 133950 Place ID: 16435

A mountain about 5 mi long surmounted by three sharp peaks in an E-W line, the highest of which rises to 2,525 meters. The feature stands at the S side of Albanus Glacier at the point where the latter joins Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the ByrdAE flight to the South Pole in November 1929. The mountain was visited in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn. Named by Byrd for Darryl F. Zanuck, official of Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures, who assisted the ByrdAE, 1933-35, in assembling motion-picture records, and later supplied the USAS, 1939-41, with motion-picture projectors.

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