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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| Detrick Peak (NZL) | 77° 32' 00.0" S | 169° 06' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 134138
Place ID: 17050
Feature n.51 in ACAN minutes of 19/06/2000. A sharp peak, c.700 m. standing 1 mi ESE of Lutz Hill in the Kyle Hills, Ross Island. Named by US.ACAN (2000) after Daniel L. Detrick, physicist/engineer, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, involved in long-term ionospheric research with USAP, including the design and fabrication, as well as deployment of instruments at McMurdo, South Pole, and Siple Stations; more than a dozen visits to Antarctica from 1980. (Proposed by Theodore J. Rosenberg.) |
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| Detrick Peak (USA) | 77° 32' 00.0" S | 169° 06' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 124307
Place ID: 17050
A sharp peak, c.700 m standing 1 mi ESE of Lutz Hill in the Kyle Hills, Ross Island. Named by US-ACAN (2000) after Daniel L. Detrick, physicist/engineer, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, involved in long-term ionospheric research with USAP, including the design and fabrication, as well as deployment of instruments at McMurdo, South Pole, and Siple Stations; more than a dozen visits to Antarctica from 1980. |
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