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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| Elder, monte (ARG) | 61° 13' 00.0" S | 55° 12' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 100787 Place ID: 4156 | |||
| Mount Elder (GBR) | 61° 13' 23.8" S | 55° 11' 29.5" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108656
Place ID: 4156
rising to 940m in SW Elephant Island, was surveyed and climbed by JSEEI in December 1970; called descriptively Misty Mountain (Burley, 1971b, map inside front cover); named Mount Elder after Capt. (later Col.) John Pullar Elder, RE (b. 1941), JSEEI surveyor (DOS 610 sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS 1972; APC, 1974, p.4). Monte Elder (Argentina. MM chart H-710, 1977). Misty (Furse, 1979, p.192). |
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| Mount Elder (USA) | 61° 13' 00.0" S | 55° 12' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 124747
Place ID: 4156
A mountain between Endurance Glacier and Mount Pendragon in Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands. Named by UK-APC for Capt. John P. Elder, RE, surveyor of the U.K. joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island, 1970-71. |
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