Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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 Buckley (NZL) | 84° 58' 00.0" S | 163° 56' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112892
Place ID: 1990
A peak, 2555m high, lying close north-east of Mt Darwin on the western side of the head of the Beardmore Glacier. Discovered and named by the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908 for George Buckley, of Ashburton, New Zealand, a supporter of the expedition. Buckley travelled on the Nimrod as far as the pack ice, then transhipped to the Koonya. |
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| Mount Buckley (USA) | 84° 58' 00.0" S | 163° 56' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123051
Place ID: 1990
An ice-free peak, 2,645 m, which is the central and highest summit of Buckley Island, a mountain massif at the head of Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for George Buckley of New Zealand, a supporter of the expedition. |
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| Schroeder Peak (AUS) | 82° 15' 00.0" S | 158° 37' 00.1" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1990
Place ID: 12861
A peak in the Cobham Range, 7 km north-west of Lyttleton Peak. Plotted by the US Geological Survey from air photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named by USACAN after J.E. Schroeder, glaciologist at Little America in 1959-60. |
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