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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| Cape Braathen (USA) | 71° 53' 00.0" S | 96° 06' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 122839
Place ID: 1725
Ice-covered cape at the NW termination of Evans Peninsula on Thurston Island. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. Named by US-ACAN for Christoffer Braathen, ski expert and dog driver with the ByrdAE of 1928-30. |
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| Sullivan Nunatak (AUS) | 82° 31' 00.1" S | 156° 34' 59.9" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1725
Place ID: 14216
A nunatak, about 6 km long, about 13 km north-west of Arrowhead Nunatak. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after J.G. Sullivan, geologist at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1961 and in 1961-62. |
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