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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| Burnette Glacier (NZL) | 72° 01' 00.0" S | 170° 03' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112901
Place ID: 2084
Steep glacier flowing south-east to Moubray Bay between Honeycomb Rige and Quartermain Point. Named by USACAN for Airman 2nd Class Robert L Burnette, USAF, who perished in C-124 Globemaster crash in this vicinity in 1958. |
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| Burnette Glacier (USA) | 72° 01' 00.0" S | 170° 03' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 123112
Place ID: 2084
Steep glacier in the Admiralty Mountains, flowing SE between Honeycomb Ridge and Quartermain Point into Moubray Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Airman 2nd Class Robert L. Burnette, USAF, who perished in a crash of a C-124 Globemaster in this vicinity in 1958. |
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| Mitchell Peninsula (AUS) | 66° 19' 41.5" S | 110° 32' 52.1" E | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 2084
Place ID: 9675
A rocky outcrop connected to the continental ice by ice and snow on the Budd Coast. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). USACAN called this feature Mitchell Island after Captain R.A. Mitchell, USN, captain of the USS Cacapon which participated in Operation Highjump. |
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