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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| Land's End (AUS) | 67° 00' 44.5" S | 142° 39' 23.3" E | Point |
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Name ID: 2201
Place ID: 8064
The westernmost point of land on the rocky cape on which the base was built at Cape Denison. |
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| Mount Caldwell (RUS) | 72° 05' 00.0" S | 101° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 117353 Place ID: 2201 | |||
| Mount Caldwell (USA) | 72° 03' 00.0" S | 101° 33' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123210
Place ID: 2201
A peak of the Walker Mountains, located 3 mi SE of Mount Lopez, near the W end of Thurston Island. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Capt. Henry Howard Caldwell, USN, captain of the seaplane tender Pine Island which explored the area during this expedition. Caldwell and five others survived a Dec. 30, 1946 crash of a seaplane at Thurston Island. |
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