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 Eissinger (GBR) | 70° 03' 00.0" S | 67° 46' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108650
Place ID: 4133
rising to 1195m N of Riley Glacier, George VI Sound, following surveys by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1962-72, was named after Karlheinz Eissinger, USGS topographic engineer, Ellsworth Land Survey, 1968-69 (APC, 1977, p.12; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 2-DOS 1984). |
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| Mount Eissinger (USA) | 70° 02' 00.0" S | 67° 44' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 124731
Place ID: 4133
A large ridge-like mountain at the N side of Riley Glacier on the W side of Palmer Land. The feature has a snow-topped upper surface, bare rock cliffs along the N side, and an impressive rectangular rock buttress rises in an unbroken, near-vertical sweep from the glacier to 500 m at the W end. Mapped by the USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Karlheinz Eissinger, USGS topographic engineer with the Ellsworth Land Survey party, 1968-69. |
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