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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| Archer Peak (NZL) | 71° 53' 49.9" S | 171° 09' 59.8" E | Knob |
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Name ID: 139331
Place ID: 461
The highest point and the southern extremity of Possession Island, the largest of the Possession Islands. About 100m high. |
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| Archer Peak (USA) | 71° 52' 00.0" S | 171° 10' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 121880
Place ID: 461
Peak, 110 m, on the SW extremity of Possession Island. Named by the BrAE, 1898-1900, presumably for A. Archer, Esq., of Australia, mentioned in the preface to Borchgrevink's First on the Antarctic Continent, or for Colin Archer who designed Borchgrevink's vessel, the Southern Cross. |
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| Cosgrove Glacier (AUS) | 67° 30' 00.0" S | 59° 05' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 461
Place ID: 3020
A small glacier, just west of the Dovers Glacier in Kemp Land. First seen from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after M Cosgrove, radio supervisor at Mawson in 1959. |
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