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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| Burke Ridge (AUS) | 74° 40' 00.1" S | 65° 25' 00.1" E | Ridge |
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Name ID: 2280
Place ID: 2075
A low ridge, partly snow covered, with three prominent rock outcrops, about 65 km south of Mount Newton in the southern Prince Charles Mountains, Mac.Robertson Land. Photographed by ANARE in 1960. First identified on the air photographs in 1971. Intersected from several survey stations during the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1972. Named after E H Burke, Technical Officer (Survey) with the Prince Charles Mountains surveys in 1970 and 1972. |
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| Lake Canopus (NZL) | 77° 33' 00.0" S | 161° 31' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 112933
Place ID: 2280
A small but significant lake 60m above the southern shore of Lake Vanda, Wright Valley. Named by the eighth VUWAE after Canopus, pilot of Menelaus, King of Sparta, later identified as Osiris and worshipped in peculiar manner at Canopus, Egypt. |
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| Lake Canopus (USA) | 77° 33' 00.0" S | 161° 31' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 123276
Place ID: 2280
A small lake 65 m above the southern shore of Lake Vanda in Wright Valley, Victoria Land. Named by the Eighth VUWAE, 1963-64, after Canopus, pilot of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. |
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