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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| Cape Dalton (AUS) | 66° 52' 32.2" S | 56° 41' 30.5" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 255
Place ID: 3290
A cape on the western side of Edward VIII Gulf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skutenes (Barge Point). First visited by an ANARE sledging party led by R Dovers in 1954. |
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| Mount Allport (AUS) | 68° 01' 00.1" S | 56° 30' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1450
Place ID: 255
A snow-free peak about 10 km south of Mount Cook in the Leckie Range, Kemp Land. Plotted from ANARE air photography. Named after B. Allport, radio officer at Mawson in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965. |
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| Mount Allport (USA) | 68° 01' 00.0" S | 56° 27' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 121728
Place ID: 255
A snow-free peak just W of Leslie Peak and about 5 mi S of Mount Cook of the Leckie Range. Plotted from ANARE air photos. Named by ANCA for B. Allport, radio officer at Mawson Station in 1964, a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965. |
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