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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| Chauve, Mont (FRA) | 66° 49' 00.0" S | 141° 23' 15.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107254
Place ID: 2568
Nom donné à un sommet bien visible du large formant en partie le cap Margerie, à l'extrémité occidentale de la presqu'île de Port-Martin. Nom donné en raison de son aspect dénudé évoquant la calvitie du chef de l'expédition, F.-A. Liotard. |
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| Mount Chauve (USA) | 66° 49' 00.0" S | 141° 23' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123493
Place ID: 2568
Rocky hill, 33 m, at the NW extremity of Cape Margerie. Charted and named by the FrAE in 1950. The name is descriptive of the hill's denuded aspect, evoking the celebrated musical score Night on Bald Mountain, "chauve" being French for bald. |
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