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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| Breidskaret Pass (USA) | 72° 44' 00.0" S | 3° 24' 00.0" W | Pass |
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Name ID: 122907
Place ID: 1815
A mountain pass between Hogfonna Mountain and Jokulskarvet Ridge in the Borg Massif, Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by NBSAE (1949-52) and named Breidskaret (the wide gap). |
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| Breiskaret (NOR) | 72° 44' 00.0" S | 3° 25' 00.0" W | Pass |
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Name ID: 114937
Place ID: 1815
The pass between Jøkulskarvet and Høgfonna in Borgmassivet, Maudheimvidda. Brei=broad. |
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| Longs Nunatak (AUS) | 66° 27' 58.7" S | 110° 43' 09.8" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1815
Place ID: 8622
A nunatak on the eastern side of Penney Bay in the Windmill Islands, about 2 km north-west of Campbell Nunatak. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE 1956 and 1965 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1956. Sighted by C.R. Eklund, scientific leader at Wilkes in 1957. Included in a triangulation by A. McLaren in 1965. Named after R.L. Long, Jnr., ionospheric physicist at Wilkes in 1957. |
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