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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| Dagger Peak (GBR) | 63° 55' 00.0" S | 57° 29' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 108403
Place ID: 3246
rising to c. 100m and forming E entrance point of Croft Bay, James Ross Island, was sighted by SwAE in 1902-03; surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1945-46 and named descriptively (APC, 1955, p.8; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Dagger Peak (USA) | 63° 55' 00.0" S | 57° 29' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 124040
Place ID: 3246
Rock peak rising steeply from sea level to about 90 m at the W end of Comb Ridge, located near the extremity of The Naze on James Ross Island, close S of Trinity Peninsula. This area was first explored in 1902 by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold. The peak was charted and given this descriptive name by the FIDS in 1945. |
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