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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| Boyle Mountains (GBR) | 67° 23' 00.0" S | 66° 36' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107909
Place ID: 1721
rising to c. 2100m and including Bartholin Peak and Quervain Peak, between Lallemand Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after The Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-91), English natural philosopher and an Original Founder Member of the Royal Society; author of New experiments and observations touching cold... (London, 1665) and Essay on gems (London, 1672), containing one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals (APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). |
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| Boyle Mountains (USA) | 67° 21' 00.0" S | 66° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122835
Place ID: 1721
A wall of mountains standing between the heads of Lallemand Fjord and Bourgeois Fjord, in Graham Land. Mapped by FIDS from surveys and air photos, 1946-59. Named by UK-APC for Robert Boyle (1627-91), English natural philosopher whose book New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold provided the first major scientific and practical approach to a philosophy of cold in all its aspects. |
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| Tingey Nunataks (AUS) | 67° 52' 00.1" S | 52° 40' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1721
Place ID: 14735
A small nunatak with three separate outcrops, 35 km from Knuckey Peaks. |
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