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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| Cartographers Range (USA) | 72° 21' 00.0" S | 167° 50' 00.0" E | Range |
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Name ID: 123343
Place ID: 2370
A rugged range about 25 mi long in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It is bounded on the N by Pearl Harbor Glacier, on the E by Tucker Glacier, and on the S by Hearfield and Trafalgar Glaciers. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for the cartographers and cartographic technicians of the Branch of Special Maps, U.S. Geological Survey. Their skills and labor have produced excellent maps of Antarctica. |
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| Dodson Rocks (AUS) | 69° 53' 10.0" S | 68° 23' 55.3" E | Rock |
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Name ID: 2370
Place ID: 3725
Two small, dark rock exposures on the southern side of Single Island, on the western side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Discovered from an ANARE aircraft in 1969. Photographed from an ANARE aircraft in 1971. Named after Dr R Dodson, senior geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey in 1971. |
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