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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| Amundsen Coast (NZL) | 85° 30' 00.0" S | 162° 00' 00.0" W | Coast |
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Name ID: 112649
Place ID: 317
That portion of the coast to the S of the Ross Ice Shelf lying between Morris Peak on the E side of Liv Glacier and the W side of the Scott Glacier. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 for Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led his own expedition in 1910-12 to the Antarctic. Setting up a base at Framheim at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, he sledged southward across the shelf and discovered a route up the Axel Heiberg Glacier along this coast to reach the polar plateau. He was the first to reach the South Pole, December 14, 1911. |
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| Amundsen Coast (RUS) | 85° 30' 00.0" S | 160° 00' 00.0" W | Coast |
| Name ID: 116809 Place ID: 317 | |||
| Amundsen Coast (USA) | 85° 30' 00.0" S | 162° 00' 00.0" W | Coast |
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Name ID: 121768
Place ID: 317
That portion of the coast to the S of the Ross Ice Shelf lying between Morris Peak on the E side of Liv Glacier and the W side of the Scott Glacier. Named by NZ-APC in 1961 for Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer who led his own expedition in 1910-12 to the Antarctic. Setting up a base at Framheim at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, he sledged southward across the shelf and discovered a route up the Axel Heiberg Glacier along this coast to reach the polar plateau. He was the first to reach the South Pole, December 14, 1911. |
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| Cape Mikhaylov (AUS) | 66° 55' 00.1" S | 118° 33' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 317
Place ID: 9546
A cape on the Moscow University Ice Shelf, Sabrina Coast, Wilkes Land, about 114 km west of the Henry Islands. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump in 1947. Plotted on base compilation sheets by Gardner Blodgett of the Office of Geography, US Department of the Interior, in 1955. Photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. Named after N. Mikhaylov, artist with the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-21). |
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