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 Bruce (NZL) | 70° 32' 00.0" S | 162° 30' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112888
Place ID: 1941
A snow-covered peak, about 853m high, which forms the highest summit in the Bowers Hills, south of Lillie Glacier Tongue, in Oates Land. Discovered by members of the crew of the Terra Nova who explored along this coast under Pennell in February 1911. Named for Lieutenant Wilfred M Bruce, RNR, officer in charge of the zoological work abroad the Terra Nova for the BAE, 1910-13. He was a brother-in-law of Scott. |
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| Mount Bruce (USA) | 70° 32' 00.0" S | 162° 30' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123013
Place ID: 1941
Prominent mountain (1,640 m) rising just S of Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont and between the Gannutz and Barber Glaciers in the Bowers Mountains. Discovered by members of the BrAE, 1910-13, who explored along this coast in the Terra Nova in February 1911. Named for Lt. Wilfred M. Bruce, RNR, officer in charge of zoological work aboard the Terra Nova. |
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| Thompson Peak (AUS) | 69° 24' 15.2" S | 157° 39' 07.6" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1941
Place ID: 14629
A peak just south of Ringgold Knoll, Oates Land. Sketched and photographed by Phillip Law on 20 February 1959 during the ANARE Expedition on the MV Magga Dan. Named after R.H.J. Thompson, (then) Administrative Officer of the Antarctic Division, Melbourne, second-in-command of several ANARE Expeditions to the Antarctic. |
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