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 Stearns (NZL) 78° 19' 11.2" S 162° 49' 28.9" E Mountain
Name ID: 139718 Place ID: 16772

A mountain rising to 2670m on the divide between the head of Kempe Glacier and Renegar Glacier in Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. The mountain stands 2.4km east of Mount Kempe. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MH09

Mount Stearns (USA) 78° 19' 00.0" S 162° 49' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 132122 Place ID: 16772

Named after Charles R. Stearns, Dept. of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin; designed and positioned automatic weather stations for nine seasons, 1980-91.

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