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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| American Highland (USA) | 72° 30' 00.0" S | 78° 00' 00.0" E | Hillock |
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Name ID: 121751
Place ID: 290
That portion of Antarctica back of the Ingrid Christensen Coast and eastward of the Lambert Glacier, consisting of an upland snow surface (2,800 m) except for a group of nunataks (Grove Mountains) near 75E. The area was discovered and named by Lincoln Ellsworth on January 11, 1939, in an aerial flight from his ship the Wyatt Earp. The area was photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and by ANARE (1956 and 1957), the latter group making a landing to obtain an astrofix at Grove Mountains, 1958. |
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| Cape Andreyev (AUS) | 68° 52' 59.9" S | 155° 15' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 290
Place ID: 388
A cape on the coast of Oates Land about 33 km south-east of Cape Davydov. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named by the Soviet Expedition after History Professor A.N. Andreyev. |
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