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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| Jøkelen (RUS) | 66° 39' 00.0" S | 54° 08' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 118689 Place ID: 4180 | |||
| Mount Elkins (AUS) | 66° 40' 00.1" S | 54° 09' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1348
Place ID: 4180
A dark, steep-sided rock with three major peaks, in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land, about 57 km south-west of Mount Kjerringa. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. |
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| Mount Elkins (USA) | 66° 39' 00.0" S | 54° 08' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 124767
Place ID: 4180
Steep-sided mountain with three major peaks, the highest 2,300 m, standing close N of Young Nunataks in the Napier Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Jokelen (the glacier). Remapped by ANARE from air photos taken in 1956, and named for T.J. Elkins, ionosphere physicist at Mawson in 1960. |
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