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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| Briggs Hill (NZL) | 77° 49' 00.0" S | 163° 00' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 112875
Place ID: 1857
Conspicuous ice-free hill on the south side of Ferrar Glacier, between descent and Overflow Glaciers. Named by USACAN for Raymond S Briggs, meteorologist, McMurdo Station, wintering party 1962. |
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| Briggs Hill (USA) | 77° 49' 00.0" S | 163° 00' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 122940
Place ID: 1857
Conspicuous ice-free hill, 1,210 m, standing on the S side of Ferrar Glacier between Descent and Overflow Glaciers in Victoria Land. Charted by the BrAE under Scott, 1910-13. Named by the US-ACAN for Raymond S. Briggs, USARP meteorologist at McMurdo Station in 1962, and station scientific leader there in 1963. |
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| Whiting Nunatak (AUS) | 68° 21' 00.0" S | 59° 12' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1857
Place ID: 9402
A prominent rock outcrop in the eastern part of the Hansen Mountains, Kemp Land, about 39 km ESE of Mount Banfield. Plotted from ANARE air photographs. Named after J. Whiting, pilot with the ANARE Expedition on the MV Nella Dan, 1965, led by Phillip Law. |
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