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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| Aagaard Islands (AUS) | 65° 51' 22.5" S | 53° 35' 02.6" E | Island |
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Name ID: 948
Place ID: 2
A group of ten or more small islands, 1-3 km west of Proclamation Island, Enderby Land. Discovered on 13 January, 1930, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named them after Bjarne Aagaard, Norwegian Antarctic historian. |
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| Aagaard Islands (USA) | 65° 51' 00.0" S | 53° 40' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 121529
Place ID: 2
Group of small islands lying close W of Proclamation Island and Cape Batterbee. Discovered in January 1930 by BANZARE under Mawson and named for Bjarne Aagaard. |
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| Ågård Islands (RUS) | 65° 51' 00.0" S | 53° 40' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 116752 Place ID: 2 | |||
| Lawson Aiguilles (AUS) | 67° 50' 40.1" S | 66° 14' 22.0" E | Aiguilles |
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Name ID: 2
Place ID: 8225
A line of sharply pointed peaks in the southern part of Mount Rivett, Mac.Robertson Land. One of the peaks was used as an astronomical station by D. Carstens, surveyor at Mawson in 1962. Another peak was used as a tellurometer station by John Manning, surveyor at Mawson in 1967. Named after E.J. Lawson, diesel mechanic at Mawson in 1967, who assisted Manning with the survey work. Location for the feature is at southern end of the aigulles - same as survey station NMS40. |
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