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 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). |
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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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