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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| Buennagel Peak (USA) | 77° 30' 00.0" S | 146° 46' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 123061
Place ID: 2005
A rock peak 1 mi E of Alexander Peak in the N part of Haines Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by USAS (1939-41) and by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by US-ACAN for Lawrence A. Buennagel, geomagnetist/seismologist at Byrd Station, 1968. |
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| Gaussberg (AUS) | 66° 48' 17.8" S | 89° 11' 39.2" E | Cone |
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Name ID: 2005
Place ID: 5175
An extinct volcanic cone about 369 m high, on the western side of Posadowsky Bay on the coast of Wilhelm II Land. Discovered in February, 1902, by the German Antarctic Expedition (1901-03) under Prof. Erich von Drygalski who named it after his expedition ship Gauss, which was frozen in the pack ice about 80 km to the north until February, 1903. |
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