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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| Lied Bluff (AUS) | 68° 30' 58.0" S | 78° 15' 52.2" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 172
Place ID: 8431
A hill about 120 m high in the north-central part of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, near Long Fjord. The southern face of the hill is almost perpendicular. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). First visited by an ANARE sledge party led by Bruce H. Stinear in 1958. |
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| Mount Alberts (USA) | 73° 02' 00.0" S | 167° 52' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 121661
Place ID: 172
A pointed, almost completely snow-covered mountain (2,320 m) situated 11 mi E of Mount Phillips on the E margin of Malta Plateau, Victoria Land. The mountain stands immediately S of the terminus of Line Glacier and overlooks the W margin of Ross Sea. Named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1966 after Fred G. Alberts, Geographer, U.S. Department of the Interior (later with the Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center), who served as Secretary to the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1949-80, and was compiler and editor of this Gazetteer. |
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