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
Cragsman Peak (RUS) 60° 38' 00.0" S 45° 41' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 117557 Place ID: 3078

Cragsman Peaks (GBR) 60° 38' 00.0" S 45° 41' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 108340 Place ID: 3078

rising to 485m W of Marshall Bay, Coronation Island, were surveyed by FIDS from Signy in 1948-49 and 1956-58, and so named in reference to the rock climbing that the peaks afford (APC, 1959a, p.5; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963).

Cragsman Peaks (USA) 60° 38' 00.0" S 45° 40' 00.0" W Peak
Name ID: 123898 Place ID: 3078

Peaks on the W side of Marshall Bay, extending from Cape Vik NW to Coldblow Col on the S coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Surveyed by the FIDS in 1956-58 and so named by the UK-APC because the peaks provide a "climbers' paradise."

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