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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| Murphy Valley (NZL) | 77° 26' 00.0" S | 161° 44' 00.0" E | Valley |
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Name ID: 135689
Place ID: 17767
An upland valley on the NE side of Mount Booth in E Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The valley opens N to Victoria Valley. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Kenneth W. Murphy, Jr., USGS cartographic technician, a member of USGS satellite surveying teams at the South Pole Station during two winters, 1981 and 1987. |
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| Murphy Valley (USA) | 77° 26' 00.0" S | 161° 47' 00.0" E | Valley |
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Name ID: 136043
Place ID: 17767
An upland valley on the NE side of Mount Booth in E Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The valley opens N to Victoria Valley. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Kenneth W. Murphy, Jr., USGS cartographic technician, a member of USGS satellite surveying teams at the South Pole Station during two winters, 1981 and 1987. |
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