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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| Farman Highland (GBR) | 74° 08' 00.0" S | 61° 30' 00.0" W | Hillock |
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Name ID: 108763
Place ID: 4468
ice-covered upland, rising to c. 750 m and forming the E part of Hutton Mountains, between Wright Inlet and Keller Inlet, Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land. Photographed by USN, 1961-67. Named after Joseph C. Farman, FIDS-BAS atmospheric physicist, 1957-90; scientific officer, Argentine Islands, 1957-59 (Base Leader, 1958-59) and chief scientist involved in the discovery of the ozone hole over Antarctica in 1985 (APC, 1991) . |
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| Farman Highland (USA) | 74° 08' 00.0" S | 61° 30' 00.0" W | Hillock |
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Name ID: 124996
Place ID: 4468
A relatively smooth ice-covered upland, rising to c. 750 m and forming the E part of Hutton Mountains, between Wright Inlet and Keller Inlet, Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land. The feature was mapped by USGS from surveys and USN aerial photographs, 1961-67. Named by UK-APC in 1991 after Joseph C. Farman, FIDS-BAS atmospheric physicist, 1957-90; scientific officer, Argentine Islands, 1957-59 (Base Leader, 1958-59). |
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