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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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. |
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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. |
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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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