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
Mount Brown-Cooper (RUS) 70° 42' 00.0" S 64° 13' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 117258 Place ID: 1908

Mount Brown-Cooper (USA) 70° 42' 00.0" S 64° 12' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 122984 Place ID: 1908

A partly ice-covered mountain 1 mi SW of Mount Forecast, surmounting the S end of Bennett Escarpment in the Prince Charles Mountains. Mapped from ANARE surveys and air photos, 1956-65. Named by ANCA for P.J. Brown-Cooper, geophysicist at Wilkes Station, 1965.

Mount Browne-Cooper (AUS) 70° 42' 00.0" S 64° 12' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 1523 Place ID: 1908

A partly ice-covered rock feature at the southern extremity of the Bennett Escarpment, about 46 km south-west of Mount Crohn. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by S L Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1956, and on aerial photography by ANARE in 1965. Named after P J Browne-Cooper, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1965.

Relief Pass (AUS) 79° 49' 00.1" S 158° 22' 59.9" E Pass
Name ID: 1908 Place ID: 12022

A pass, 760 m high, about 2 km north-west of Bastion Hill in the Brown Hills. Discovered by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962-63) and so named by the members of the expedition because of the relief it provided after ascent to this pass.

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