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
Riiser-Larsenhalvøya (NOR) 68° 50' 00.0" S 34° 00' 00.0" E
Name ID: 135774 Place ID: 18096

Large peninsula in the W part of Prins Harald Kyst. After major-general Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, 1890-1965, Norwegian navy officer who visited Antarctica with "Norvegia" in 1929-30.

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