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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| Browns Glacier (AUS) | 68° 55' 53.0" S | 77° 58' 45.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 465
Place ID: 1927
A glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast flowing into Ranvik Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE. Named after Lieut. E. P Brown, USN, photographic officer with Operation Highjump. |
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| Browns Glacier (RUS) | 68° 56' 00.0" S | 78° 00' 00.0" E | Glacier |
| Name ID: 117265 Place ID: 1927 | |||
| Browns Glacier (USA) | 68° 56' 00.0" S | 78° 00' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 123000
Place ID: 1927
A small glacier 4 mi N of Chaos Glacier, flowing westward into the north extremity of Ranvik Bay. The glacier was charted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37), and was further identified in John H. Roscoe's 1952 study of this area from USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) photography. Named by Roscoe for Lt. (j.g.) Eduardo P. Brown, USN, photographic officer with the western task group of Operation Highjump. |
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| O'Shea Peak (AUS) | 70° 25' 47.8" S | 66° 29' 51.1" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1927
Place ID: 10488
A small peak just south of Mount McCarthy in the eastern part of the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. An astrofix was obtained by S.L. Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1956. Named after J.H. O'Shea, radio officer at Wilkes in 1962 and 1964 and at Macquarie Island in 1966. |
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