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
Dawson Peak (USA) 83° 50' 00.0" S 162° 33' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 124170 Place ID: 3406

A prominent ice-free peak, 2,070 m, 5 mi SW of Mount Picciotto in the Queen Elizabeth Range. Named by US-ACAN after John A. Dawson, USARP aurora scientist at South Pole Station, 1958.

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