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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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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