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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Urda Ridge (BGR) | 61° 16' 10.0" S | 54° 08' 00.0" W | Ridge |
Name ID: 137893
Place ID: 19521
The mostly ice-covered ridge occupying the interior of southern Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands. The feature extends 8 km in NNE-SSW direction and 9 km in WNW-ESE direction, rising to 1950 m (Mount Irving), and is connected to Ravelin Ridge to the N by Soyka Saddle. British mapping in 1972 and 2009. Urda is a Thracian place name from Southern Bulgaria. |
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