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
Mount Burnham (RUS) 77° 18' 00.0" S 141° 57' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 117321 Place ID: 2090

Mount Burnham (USA) 77° 16' 00.0" S 142° 05' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 123116 Place ID: 2090

Mountain, 1,170 m, standing 2 mi N of Mount Van Valkenburg in the Clark Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights from West Base of the USAS in 1940 and named for Guy Burnham, Cartographer in the School of Geography of Clark University.

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