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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| Chopin Hill (GBR) | 71° 42' 00.0" S | 73° 50' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 108191
Place ID: 2648
rising to c. 250m on Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island, after map compilation by FIDS in 1959 from air photographs taken by RARE in 1947, was named after Frédéric Fran ois Chopin (1810-49), Polish composer, in association with the names of other composers in this area ([in 71 36'S 73 46'W] APC, 1961, p.2; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; Searle, 1963, folding map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p. 8). |
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| Chopin Hill (USA) | 71° 40' 00.0" S | 73° 49' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 123536
Place ID: 2648
Low, snow-covered hill, c. 600 m, lying 2 mi SW of Mount Schumann on Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC after Frederic Chopin (1810-49), Polish composer. |
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