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
Mount Cupola (GBR) 69° 21' 00.0" S 70° 31' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 108386 Place ID: 3206

rising to c. 1650m W of Hampton Glacier, N Alexander Island, was seen from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1948 and named descriptively (APC, 1961, p.2; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978).

Mount Cupola (USA) 69° 21' 00.0" S 70° 27' 00.0" W Mountain
Name ID: 124007 Place ID: 3206

Dome-shaped mountain, 2,500 m, marking the SE limit of Rouen Mountains in the N part of Alexander Island. First photographed from the air by the BGLE in 1937. Surveyed in 1948 by the FIDS. The descriptive name was given by the UK-APC in 1960.

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