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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| The Dragons Back (GBR) | 80° 23' 00.0" S | 28° 33' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 108560
Place ID: 3854
rising to 1015m E of Stratton Glacier, Shackleton Range, was photographed from the air by USN in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by BAS from Halley, 1968-71; named descriptively (APC, 1974, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SU 26-30/1, 1-DOS 1978). |
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| The Dragons Back (USA) | 80° 23' 00.0" S | 28° 33' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 124509
Place ID: 3854
A mostly ice-free ridge rising to 1,315 m in the W part of La Grange Nunataks, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by BAS, 1968-71. Descriptively named by the UK-APC, 1971, from the spikes on the ridge crest giving an allusion of a dragon. |
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