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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| Fender Buttress (GBR) | 64° 36' 00.0" S | 61° 03' 00.0" W | Buttress |
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Name ID: 108774
Place ID: 4514
rising to c.1500m on S side of Herbert Plateau, N central Graham Land, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1961-62; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Guillaume Fender, of Buenos Aires, inventor of an early type of track-laying vehicle (British Patent 1168 of 1882, taken out by J. C. Mewburn) (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Fender Buttress (USA) | 64° 34' 00.0" S | 61° 04' 00.0" W | Buttress |
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Name ID: 125034
Place ID: 4514
A rock buttress rising to more than 1,600 m, projecting from the S side of Herbert Plateau into the head of Drygalski Glacier, Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61). Named by UK-APC for Guillaume Fender of Buenos Aires, inventor of an early type of track-laying vehicle (British Patent of 1882, taken out by John C. Mewburn). |
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