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.
Showing 1 place name.
Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
---|---|---|---|
Imeon Range (BGR) | 62° 58' 30.0" S | 62° 30' 20.0" W | Range |
Name ID: 134716
Place ID: 18170
The mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands. Extending 30 km in SW-NE direction between Cape James and Cape Smith, and 6.8 km wide. Its summit Mount Foster is a double peak, the higher S height of which (2105 m) was first climbed on January 30, 1996 by a New Zealand team lead by Greg Landreth. Named after Mount Imeon (present day Pamir and Hindu Kush), whose highlands and valleys around Oxus River (Amu Darya) were the ancient Bulgarian homeland described in the 7th Century Armenian geography 'Ashharatsuyts'. |
Showing 1 place name.