Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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Bruce Plateau (RUS) | 66° 00' 00.0" S | 64° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
Name ID: 117270 Place ID: 1936 | |||
Bruce Plateau (GBR) | 66° 00' 00.0" S | 64° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
Name ID: 107985
Place ID: 1936
ice-covered plateau rising to c.2000m and extending from 65 15'S to 66 30'S in central Graham Land, was probably sighted by FAE, 1908-10, from Pendleton Strait in January 1909; following survey of its S and W parts by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1946-47, named after Dr W.S. Bruce (Bruce Islands, q.v.) (APC, 1955, p.6; DCS 601 sheet 66 64, 1955; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). The plateau was further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-62. Plato Brus (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). Meseta Bruce (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.263). |
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Bruce Plateau (USA) | 66° 00' 00.0" S | 64° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
Name ID: 123008
Place ID: 1936
Ice-covered plateau, at least 90 mi long and about 1,830 m high, extending NE from the heads of Gould and Erskine Glaciers to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land. The first sighting of this plateau has not been ascertained, but it was presumably seen in January 1909 by members of the FrAE under Charcot from their position in Pendleton Strait. The plateau was mapped from aerial photographs and FIDS surveys, 1946-62. Named by UK-APC after William S. Bruce, Scottish polar explorer and leader of the ScotNAE, 1902-04. |
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Twin Peaks (AUS) | 67° 07' 59.9" S | 55° 34' 59.9" E | Peak |
Name ID: 1936
Place ID: 15125
Two peaks rising to about 1,100 m in the Schwartz Range in Kemp Land, about 22 km north of the Wilma Glacier in the south-west part of Edward VIII Gulf. Discovered by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1954. |
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