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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| Braunsteffer Lake (USA) | 68° 32' 00.0" S | 78° 22' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 122885
Place ID: 1786
A lake 0.5 mi long located 1 mi W of the central part of Lake Zvezda in the Vestfold Hills. The lake was photographed from the air by USN Operation HighJump (1946-47) and was mapped from air photos by the SovAE (1956) and ANARE (1957-58). Named by ANCA for C. Braunsteffer, weather observer at Davis Station in 1959, who carried out scientific investigations on lakes in the Vestfold Hills. |
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| Lake Braunsteffer (AUS) | 68° 32' 06.0" S | 78° 21' 46.8" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1274
Place ID: 1786
A lake in the eastern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 2 km west of Lake Zvezda. Mapped from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. |
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| Richards Nunatak (AUS) | 75° 55' 59.9" S | 159° 45' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1786
Place ID: 12108
A nunatak about 20 km south-east of Ricker Hills and just north-east of McLea Nunatak. Named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Expedition (1962-63) after D. Richards radio operator at Scott Base. |
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