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 Aorangi (NZL) | 72° 25' 00.0" S | 166° 22' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112664
Place ID: 438
The highest mountain, 3,135 m, in the Millen Range. So named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, because of this mountain's cloud-piercing ability, and also in memory of Mount Cook, New Zealand, known to the Maori people as "Aorangi" (the cloud piercer). |
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| Mount Aorangi (USA) | 72° 25' 00.0" S | 166° 22' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 121862
Place ID: 438
The highest mountain, 3,135 m, in the Millen Range. So named by the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, because of this mountain's cloud-piercing ability, and also in memory of Mount Cook, New Zealand, known to the Maori people as "Aorangi" (the cloud piercer). |
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| Silk Glacier (AUS) | 81° 09' 00.0" S | 158° 55' 00.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 438
Place ID: 13274
A glacier about 22 km long, flowing eastward from the slopes of Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to Nursery Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. |
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