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
Breidsvellet (USA) 72° 39' 00.0" S 3° 10' 00.0" W
Name ID: 122908 Place ID: 1816

A steep ice slope on the E side of Jokulskarvet Ridge, in the Borg Massif of Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by NBSAE (1949-52) and named Breidsvellet (the broad icesheet).

Breisvellet (NOR) 72° 40' 00.0" S 3° 10' 00.0" W
Name ID: 114938 Place ID: 1816

The ice-fall E of N part of Jøkulskarvet, in Regulakjeda in the NE part of Borgmassivet, Maudheimvidda. Brei=broad.

Lawson Nunatak (AUS) 67° 56' 52.8" S 62° 50' 46.3" E Nunatak
Name ID: 1816 Place ID: 8226

A small, tooth-like nunatak, about 5 km south-east of Branson Nunatak in the Masson Range, Mac.Robertson Land. Fixed by intersection from trigonometrical stations by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in February, 1968.

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