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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| Boyd Nunatak (AUS) | 69° 51' 24.8" S | 74° 39' 01.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1741
Place ID: 1711
A small nunatak, about 90 m high, about 17 km south-east of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen on the Ingrid Christensen Coast. Mapped by Norwegian Cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936). Named after John S Boyd, physicist at Wilkes in 1965. |
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| Boyd Nunatak (RUS) | 69° 52' 00.0" S | 74° 40' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
| Name ID: 117208 Place ID: 1711 | |||
| Boyd Nunatak (USA) | 69° 50' 00.0" S | 74° 44' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 122826
Place ID: 1711
A small nunatak 8 mi SE of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen, on the S side of Publications Ice Shelf. First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Remapped by ANARE and named by ANCA for J.S. Boyd, physicist at Wilkes Station in 1965. |
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| Sørtoppen Nunatak (AUS) | 66° 40' 00.1" S | 53° 28' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1711
Place ID: 13705
A nunatak about 1900 m above sea level, about 11.1 km south-west of Mount Breckenridge in Enderby Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sxrtoppen (The South Peak) by Norwegian cartographers. |
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