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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| Lindsay Nunatak (AUS) | 68° 19' 59.9" S | 59° 09' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1808
Place ID: 14348
One of the group of peaks at the eastern end of the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land, about 41 km south-east of Fram Peak. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after Lindsay Smith, helicopter engineer with the ANARE Expedition on the MV (Nella Dan), 1965, led by Phillip Law. |
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| Mount Breckinridge (AUS) | 66° 37' 00.1" S | 53° 40' 59.9" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1650
Place ID: 1808
A mountain about 6.5 km SSE of Mount Bennett, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1956. Named after J E Breckinridge, meteorologist at Wilkes in 1961. |
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| Mount Breckinridge (RUS) | 66° 37' 00.0" S | 53° 41' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117236 Place ID: 1808 | |||
| Mount Breckinridge (USA) | 66° 37' 00.0" S | 53° 41' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122902
Place ID: 1808
Mountain, 2,050 m, standing 4 mi S of Stor Hanakken Mountain in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Langnuten (the long peak). Rephotographed by ANARE in 1956 and renamed by ANCA for J.E. Breckinridge, meteorologist at Wilkes Station in 1961. |
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