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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| Fontaine Bluff (AUS) | 79° 34' 00.1" S | 159° 40' 00.1" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 212
Place ID: 4788
A bluff 7 km west of Cape Murray and 6 km north of Cheney Bluff, on the southern side of Carlyon Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Cdr. R K Fontaine, USN, commander of USS Hissem on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between New Zealand and McMurdo Sound during Operation Deepfreeze 1964. |
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| Fontaine Bluff (NZL) | 79° 34' 47.8" S | 159° 42' 31.2" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 139364
Place ID: 4788
A bluff 9km west of Cape Murray and 7km north of Cheney Bluff, on the southern side of Carlyon Glacier. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MM07 |
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| Fontaine Bluff (USA) | 79° 35' 00.0" S | 159° 42' 00.0" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 125249
Place ID: 4788
Bluff 4 mi W of Cape Murray on the S side of Carlyon Glacier. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. R.K. Fontaine, USN, commander of USS Hissem on ocean station duty in support of aircraft flights between Christchurch and McMurdo Sound, 1963-64. |
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