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
Aramis Range (AUS) 70° 37' 00.1" S 67° 00' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 2253 Place ID: 454

The third range of the Prince Charles Mountains. First visited in January,1957, by the ANARE southern party, 1956-57, led by William G. Bewsher. Named by Bewsher after a character in Dumas''s novel, ''The Three Musketeers''.

Aramis Range (RUS) 70° 38' 00.0" S 66° 30' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 116847 Place ID: 454

Aramis Range (USA) 70° 37' 00.0" S 67° 00' 00.0" E Range
Name ID: 121877 Place ID: 454

The third range south in the Prince Charles Mountains, situated 11 mi SE of the Porthos Range and extending for about 30 mi in a SW-NE direction. First visited in January 1957 by ANARE southern party led by W.G. Bewsher, who named it for a character in Alexander Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers, the most popular book read on the southern journey.

Dovers Glacier (AUS) 67° 28' 06.2" S 59° 21' 17.3" E Glacier
Name ID: 454 Place ID: 9948

A glacier 9-11 km wide extending WNW into the south-eastern side of Stefansson Bay in Kemp Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photography by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Mulebreen (The Snout Glacier).

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