Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Buttress Nunataks (RUS) | 72° 20' 00.0" S | 67° 00' 00.0" W | Buttress |
| Name ID: 117333 Place ID: 2135 | |||
| Buttress Nunataks (GBR) | 72° 21' 00.0" S | 66° 50' 00.0" W | Buttress |
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Name ID: 108039
Place ID: 2135
rising to 635m on E coast of George VI Sound, NW of Seward Mountains, were seen from a distance and roughly mapped by BGLE in October 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); further mapped by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1949 and named descriptively (APC, 1955, p.6; DCS 601 sheet W 72 66, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). Nunataki Batress (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Nunataki Battress (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 24). The feature was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69. |
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| Buttress Nunataks (USA) | 72° 22' 00.0" S | 66° 47' 00.0" W | Buttress |
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Name ID: 123160
Place ID: 2135
Group of prominent coastal rock exposures, the highest 635 m, lying close inland from George VI Sound and 10 mi WNW of the Seward Mountains, on the W coast of Palmer Land. First seen from a distance and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. Visited and resurveyed in 1949 by the FIDS, who gave this descriptive name. |
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| Buttress, nunataks (ARG) | 72° 21' 00.0" S | 66° 50' 00.0" W | Buttress |
| Name ID: 100384 Place ID: 2135 | |||
| Law Plateau (AUS) | 72° 49' 59.9" S | 70° 00' 00.0" E | Plateau |
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Name ID: 2135
Place ID: 8214
A high ice plateau extending eastwards from the Mawson Escarpment. Delineated from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Phillip G. Law, (then) Director of the Australian Antarctic Division of the (then) Department of External Affairs. |
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