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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Chapel Hill (GBR) | 63° 41' 00.0" S | 57° 58' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 108150
Place ID: 2515
rising to 140m W of Church Point, Prince Gustav Channel, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in December 1946 and named in association with Church Point, a higher feature (APC, 1955, p.7; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). |
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Chapel Hill (USA) | 63° 41' 00.0" S | 57° 58' 00.0" W | Hill |
Name ID: 123449
Place ID: 2515
Hill, 140 m, forming the summit of a headland 1.5 mi WSW of Church Point, on the S coast of Trinity Peninsula. Charted by the FIDS in 1946, who so named it because of its proximity to Church Point. |
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Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains (AUS) | 80° 30' 00.0" S | 76° 00' 00.0" E | Subglacial mountains |
Name ID: 2515
Place ID: 5096
The subglacial mountains are within the Australian Antarctic Territory near the western boundary with Dronning Maud Land. They underlie and extend beyond the area of Dome Argus. The mountains were discovered by a Soviet Union Seismic party in 1958. |
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