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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| Friis Hills (NZL) | 77° 45' 00.0" S | 161° 25' 00.0" E | Heights |
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Name ID: 140351
Place ID: 4970
A teardrop shaped cluster of ice-free hills, approximately 11.2km east to west in extent and rising to 1586m in the centre, at the north side of the bend in Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF08 |
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| Friis Hills (USA) | 77° 45' 00.0" S | 161° 25' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 125412
Place ID: 4970
A cluster of ice-free hills, 6 mi in extent and rising to 1,750 m, at the N side of the bend in Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. Named after geographer and archivist Herman R. Friis (1906-89), Director of the Center for Polar Archives in the National Archives; U.S. exchange scientist at the Japanese station East Ongul Island, 1969-70; member of US-ACAN, 1957-73. |
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