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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| Mount Cornu (GBR) | 64° 10' 00.0" S | 60° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108312
Place ID: 3000
rising to c. 1450m on SW side of Wright Ice Piedmont, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of aviation pioneers grouped in this area, named after Paul Cornu (b.1881), French engineer who, in a machine of his own construction, was the first man to leave the ground in a helicopter (although not vertically), 13 November 1907 (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Mount Cornu (USA) | 64° 09' 00.0" S | 60° 35' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 123829
Place ID: 3000
Mountain standing at the head of Gregory Glacier and N of Breguet Glacier, in northern Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Paul Cornu, French engineer who, in a machine of his own construction, was the first man to leave the ground successfully, although not vertically, in a helicopter. |
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