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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| Mount Bushnell (USA) | 85° 36' 00.0" S | 150° 48' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123139
Place ID: 2113
Mountain, 840 m, between Mount Durham and Pincer Point in the NW part of Tapley Mountains. First roughly mapped by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Remapped by USGS, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Vivian C. Bushnell of the American Geographical Society, editor of the Society's Antarctic Map Folio Series. |
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| Nicholson Peninsula (AUS) | 80° 43' 00.1" S | 160° 00' 00.0" E | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 2113
Place ID: 10243
A broad, ice-covered peninsula, partly in the Ross Dependency, about 22 km long between Cousens Bay and Matterson Inlet. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. |
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