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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| Cappellari Glacier (USA) | 85° 52' 00.0" S | 158° 40' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 123292
Place ID: 2304
A glacier 11 mi long in the Hays Mountains, flowing W from the NW shoulder of Mount Vaughan to enter Amundsen Glacier just N of Mount Dort. First roughly mapped by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Remapped by USGS from ground surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Lewis K. Cappellari who made ionospheric studies at McMurdo Station in 1965. |
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| Johnstone Ridge (AUS) | 80° 07' 59.9" S | 156° 40' 00.1" E | Ridge |
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Name ID: 2304
Place ID: 7193
A ridge about 13 km long, extending northwards from Mount Olympus towards the southern side of Hatherton Glacier on the western side of Lieske Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after G.W. Johnstone, a New Zealand auroral scientist at Byrd Station during the winter of 1962, who also served as warehouseman at McMurdo Station during the winter of 1964. |
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