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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| Countess Peninsula (AUS) | 66° 08' 51.0" S | 101° 14' 02.5" E | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 2110
Place ID: 3037
A rocky peninsula projecting from the ice in the northern part of the Bunger Hills. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) Named by USACAN after J Countess, air crewman on the Operation Highjump seaplane which landed on one of the lakes in the Bunger Hills in February, 1947. NOTE: It has the name Skalistyj, poluostrov in the Russian gazetteer. |
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| Mount Burton (NZL) | 72° 33' 00.0" S | 166° 44' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112902
Place ID: 2110
Approximately 2900m high. A greywacke peak, 6 miles south of Mt McDonald at the head of Trafalgar Glacier. Named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, for William Burton, Leading Stoker, RN, a member of the crew of the "Terra Nova" of the BAE, 1910-13. Burton who lives in New Zealand, was a guest of the US Navy during the 1962-63 Antarctic season when he visited the continent again with two others of Scott's veterans. |
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| Mount Burton (USA) | 72° 33' 00.0" S | 166° 44' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123136
Place ID: 2110
A graywacke peak (2,740 m) standing at the W side of the mouth of Osuga Glacier in the Barker Range, Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. Named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, after William Burton, crew member on the Terra Nova during the BrAE, 1910-13. Burton, who lived in New Zealand, was a guest of the U.S. Navy during the 1962-63 Antarctic season when he visited the continent again with two others of Scott's veterans. |
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