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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| Faulkner Nunatak (GBR) | 69° 36' 00.0" S | 71° 42' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 108766
Place ID: 4482
rising to c. 200m at head of Lazarev Bay, N Alexander Island, following survey by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1975-76, was named after Harold T. Faulkner, USN, who supervised photographic work on ODF, 1969, as Leading Chief, Squadron VXE-6 Photo Division (APC, 1980, p.3). |
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| Faulkner Nunatak (USA) | 69° 36' 00.0" S | 71° 42' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 125009
Place ID: 4482
A distinctive nunatak (c. 200 m) just W of Beagle Peak, Lassus Mountains, in NW Alexander Island. The feature appears in USN aerial photographs obtained in 1966. Named by US-ACAN after Harold T. Faulkner, USN, Leading Chief of Squadron VXE-6 Photo Division on Operation Deep Freeze, 1969. |
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