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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| Amery Peaks (AUS) | 70° 38' 00.0" S | 67° 23' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 2068
Place ID: 297
A group of peaks on the eastern end of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered by the ANARE southern party, (1956-57), led by W.G. Bewsher and so named because of their proximity to the Amery Ice Shelf. |
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| Burgess Ice Rise (GBR) | 70° 23' 00.0" S | 73° 21' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 108019
Place ID: 2068
in Wilkins Ice Shelf, Alexander Island, was mapped from the air on a radio echo-sounding flight by BAS on 11 February 1967 and later accurately positioned from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1979; named after Flight Lieut. Robert William Burgess, RAF (b. 1929), pilot-in-command of the DH-3 Twin Otter aircraft on the flight (APC, 1982, p.3). |
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| Burgess Ice Rise (USA) | 70° 23' 00.0" S | 73° 21' 00.0" W | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 123102
Place ID: 2068
A small ice rise in Wilkins Ice Shelf, off the W coast of Alexander Island. Mapped from the air on a radio echo sounding flight by BAS on Feb. 11, 1967, and later accurately positioned from U.S. Landsat imagery of Feb. 1979. Named by the UK-APC in 1980 after Flight Lt. Robert William Burgess, RAF pilot in command of the Twin Otter aircraft on the flight. |
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