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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| Altar Peak (USA) | 86° 04' 00.0" S | 150° 23' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 121740
Place ID: 269
A peak (1,780 m) located 1 mi ESE of Mount Harkness in the Gothic Mountains, Queen Maud Mountains. The feature was first visited in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn. The descriptive name was suggested by Edmund Stump, leader of a USARP-Arizona State University geological party which studied this peak, 1987-88. |
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| Cape Gray (AUS) | 66° 50' 18.3" S | 143° 29' 30.5" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 269
Place ID: 5628
A cape lying at the northern end of a small rocky island, joined by an ice ramp to the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after P. Gray, a member of the expedition. |
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