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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| Mount Fourcade (GBR) | 64° 36' 00.0" S | 62° 29' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108892
Place ID: 4872
rising to 215m at N end of Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry and air survey grouped in this area, named after Henri Georges Fourcade (1866-1948), South African geodetic surveyor and botanist who designed the stereogoniometer and applied it to plotting photogrammetric surveys, in c. 1900 (APC, 1960, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Mount Fourcade (USA) | 64° 36' 00.0" S | 62° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 125324
Place ID: 4872
Mountain standing 2 mi SW of Cape Anna on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for H.G. Fourcade, South African surveyor who designed the stereogoniometer and gave it practical application for plotting photogrammetric surveys in about 1900. |
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