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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| Figaro Nunatak (GBR) | 70° 07' 00.0" S | 70° 44' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 108793
Place ID: 4573
rising to c. 200m near E end of Mozart Ice Piedmont, N Alexander Island, following map compilation by FIDS in 1959 from air photographs taken by RARE in 1947, was named in association with the ice piedmont after Mozart's opera The marriage of Figaro (1786) ([in 69°56'S 70°57'W] APC, 1961, p.2; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] APC, 1977, p.13; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 2-DOS 1982). Figaru [sic] Nunatak (USHO chart 16384-5, 1961). |
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| Figaro Nunatak (USA) | 70° 07' 00.0" S | 70° 44' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 125079
Place ID: 4573
Isolated nunatak rising to c. 200 m near the E end of Mozart Ice Piedmont, in the N part of Alexander Island. Mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by UK-APC from association with ice piedmont after Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. |
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