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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Burn Cliffs (GBR) | 70° 06' 00.0" S | 69° 47' 00.0" W | Cliff |
Name ID: 108022
Place ID: 2082
rising to c. 455m near head of Haydn Inlet, NW Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS, 1973-77, were named after Richard William Burn (b.1954), BAS geologist, Adelaide and N Alexander Island, 1975-76 and 1976-77 (BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1980, p. 3). |
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Burn Cliffs (USA) | 70° 06' 00.0" S | 69° 47' 00.0" W | Cliff |
Name ID: 123110
Place ID: 2082
Two rock outlier ridges (455 m) westward of Mount Ethelwulf, Douglas Range, at the head of Haydn Inlet, Alexander Island. The feature was mapped by DOS from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy in 1966 and U.S. Landsat imagery taken Jan. 1974. Named by UK-APC, 1977, after Richard W. Burn, BAS geologist, Adelaide Island and N Alexander Island, 1975-76 and 1976-77. |
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Dunlop Peak (AUS) | 67° 56' 53.6" S | 62° 27' 51.8" E | Peak |
Name ID: 2082
Place ID: 3967
The southern peak of Smith Peaks, in the David Range, Mac.Robertson Land, about 2 km south of Mount Hordern. This peak has been passed by ANARE field parties going south since 1957. |
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