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 Ekblaw (RUS) | 77° 45' 00.0" S | 141° 50' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 117860 Place ID: 4136 | |||
Mount Ekblaw (USA) | 77° 19' 00.0" S | 141° 48' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 124733
Place ID: 4136
Mountain, 1,235 m, standing 3 mi E of Mount Van Valkenburg in the E part of the Clark Mountains in Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the USAS in 1940 and named for W.E. Ekblaw, professor of geography at Clark University and a member of the Crocker Land Expedition in the Arctic (1913-17). |
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