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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| Canícula, monte (ARG) | 63° 43' 00.0" S | 58° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 100425 Place ID: 2268 | |||
| McDonald Ridge (AUS) | 66° 19' 59.9" S | 52° 15' 00.0" E | Ridge |
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Name ID: 2268
Place ID: 9264
A ridge, mostly ice-covered, about 9 km south-east of Johnston Peak, Enderby Land. Plotted from aerial photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after K.R. McDonald radio officer at Mawson in 1961. |
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| Mount Canicula (GBR) | 63° 43' 00.0" S | 58° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108071
Place ID: 2268
rising to c. 1100m, SW of Louis-Philippe Plateau, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1946; named in association with Sirius Knoll (q.v.), Canicula being a synonym for Sirius, the dog star (APC, 1955, p.7; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Monte Canïcula (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter C). |
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| Mount Canicula (USA) | 63° 43' 00.0" S | 58° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123264
Place ID: 2268
A mountain formed of two rock peaks, 890 and 825 m high. It stands 3 mi E of Sirius Knoll on the divide separating Russell East Glacier and Russell West Glacier in central Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by FIDS, and named by them because of the association with Sirius Knoll. Canicula is a synonym of Sirius, the dog star. |
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| Ramírez, Monte (CHL) | 63° 44' 00.0" S | 58° 32' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 135089
Place ID: 2268
Fue cartografiado en 1946 por el FIDS, que le dio el nombre de Mount Canícula por su asociación con la loma Sirius. Canícula es un sinónimo de Sirius, la estrella del perro. El nombre actual corresponde al apellido del comandante de escuadrilla Eleuterio Ramírez Betancour, Fuerza Aérea de Chile, quien participó en la Expedición Antártica Chilena de 1956 a bordo de la PF. "Baquedano" de la Armada de Chile. Monte sobremontado por dos picos, el más oriental de los cuales tiene aproximada mente 1.000 metros de elevación, que se ubica a unas 3 millas al E de la loma Sirius sobre la divisoria que separa los glaciares East Russell y West Russell, en la parte central de la península Luis Felipe. |
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