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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Argentina Range (RUS) | 82° 20' 00.0" S | 42° 00' 00.0" W | Range |
Name ID: 116861 Place ID: 489 | |||
Argentina Range (GBR) | 82° 20' 00.0" S | 42° 00' 00.0" W | Range |
Name ID: 107560
Place ID: 489
rising to 925m at Mount Spann (q.v.), E of Support Force Glacier, Pensacola Mountains, following survey on US Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66 (Huffman and Schmidt, 1966) and air photography by USN in 1967, was named after the Republic of Argentina which has maintained a "General Belgrano Station" on Filchner Ice Shelf (q.v.) since 1955 (USGS sheet SU 21-25/11, 1968; APC, 1974, p.3). |
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Argentina Range (USA) | 82° 20' 00.0" S | 42° 00' 00.0" W | Range |
Name ID: 121900
Place ID: 489
A range of rock peaks and bluffs, 42 mi long, lying 35 mi E of the N part of Forrestal Range in the NE portion of the Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 in the course of a USN transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo Sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN after Argentina, which for many years from 1955 maintained a scientific station on the Filchner Ice Shelf at the General Belgrano or Ellsworth Station site. The entire Pensacola Mountains were mapped by USGS in 1967 and 1968 from ground surveys and USN tricamera photographs taken in 1964. |
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Nemesis Glacier (AUS) | 70° 36' 00.0" S | 67° 05' 00.0" E | Glacier |
Name ID: 489
Place ID: 10150
A small glacier flowing through the centre of the Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains. Discovered in January, 1957, by the ANARE southern party led by William G. Bewsher. Named after Homer''s Nemesis. |
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