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
Blundell Peak (AUS) 69° 25' 33.7" S 76° 06' 15.0" E Peak
Name ID: 1999 Place ID: 1490

A prominent rock peak on Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills, about 160 m high. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The feature was occupied as a survey station by ANARE in 1968 and 1969. Named after A A Blundell, radio operator-in-charge at Mawson in 1968, who assisted in the tellurometer traverse from this point to the Reinbolt Hills in 1968.

Budnick Hill (AUS) 66° 16' 41.8" S 110° 31' 34.7" E Hill
Name ID: 696 Place ID: 1999

A rounded hill, oval in plan with a narrow connection to Bailey Peninsula, in the southern part of Newcomb Bay, Windmill Islands, about 500 m west of Casey station. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956) and ANARE (1956, 1962 and 1963). The hill was used as a trigonometrical station during a large-scale survey of the northern part of Bailey Peninsula by K Budnick, surveyor at Wilkes in 1964, after whom it was named.

Budnick Hill (USA) 66° 17' 00.0" S 110° 32' 00.0" E Hill
Name ID: 123059 Place ID: 1999

A small, rounded hill on the S side of Newcomb Bay on Budd Coast. The hill rises between Crane Cove and Geoffrey Bay and is joined by a narrow strip of land to the N part of Bailey Peninsula. First mapped from USN Operation Highjump air photos of 1946-47. Named by ANCA for K. Budnick, ANARE surveyor in 1964 at Wilkes Station, who set up a trigonometrical station on the hill.

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