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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| Brown Ridge (GBR) | 83° 38' 00.0" S | 55° 06' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 107979
Place ID: 1917
running N from Nelson Peak, Washington Escarpment, Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, and rising to 1400m, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Robert D. Brown, geologist with the USGS field party in Patuxent Range, summer 1962-63 ([in 83 38'S 54 52'W] USBGN, 1965, p.94; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). |
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| Brown Ridge (USA) | 83° 38' 00.0" S | 55° 06' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 122992
Place ID: 1917
A bare rock ridge, 3 mi long, extending NNW from Nelson Peak in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1955-66. Named by US-ACAN for Robert D. Brown, geologist with the Patuxent Range field party, 1962-63. |
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| Gentner Peak (AUS) | 69° 23' 28.3" S | 76° 18' 15.1" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1917
Place ID: 5224
A hill about 115 m high, about 2.6 km west of Law Base in the Larsemann Hills. |
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