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
Bypass Hill (NZL) 72° 28' 00.0" S 168° 28' 00.0" E Hill
Name ID: 112911 Place ID: 2149

A hill, 660m high, on the ridge on the upstream side of the junction of Trafalgar and Tucker Glaciers. The NZ Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58, established a survey station there, and gave it its name.

Bypass Hill (USA) 72° 28' 00.0" S 168° 28' 00.0" E Hill
Name ID: 123170 Place ID: 2149

Hill, 660 m, situated on the ridge at the junction of Tucker and Trafalgar Glaciers in Victoria Land. Named by the NZGSAE, 1957-58, who established a survey station at this point.

Lavallee Point (AUS) 76° 37' 00.1" S 159° 51' 00.0" E Point
Name ID: 2149 Place ID: 8201

The northernmost point of Shipton Ridge in the Allan Hills. Discovered by the NZARP Allan Hills Expedition (1964). Named after Lieut. Lavallee, a US Navy helicopter pilot, who assisted in establishing the expedition in the Allan Hills.

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