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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| Boulton Peak (GBR) | 64° 07' 00.0" S | 60° 42' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 107887
Place ID: 1662
rising to c. 1250m SE of Curtiss Bay, Davis Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of aviation in this area, named after Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, English inventor of ailerons for lateral control of aircraft in 1868 (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961). |
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| Boulton Peak (USA) | 64° 06' 00.0" S | 60° 42' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 122778
Place ID: 1662
A peak at the SE side of Curtiss Bay, about 5 mi S of Cape Andreas, Graham Land. Mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys (1955-57). Named by UK-APC for Matthew P.W. Boulton, English inventor of ailerons for lateral control of aircraft, in 1868. |
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| Mount Degerfeldt (AUS) | 66° 58' 00.1" S | 51° 01' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1662
Place ID: 3478
One of the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land, about 7 km south of Mount Storer. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956 and 1957. Named after C Degerfeldt, a member of the crew of the Discovery during BANZARE (1929-31). |
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