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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| Gabriel Peak (GBR) | 65° 36' 00.0" S | 62° 39' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 108946
Place ID: 5049
rising to c. 1250m at head of Starbuck Glacier, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1963-64; in association with the names of characters from Moby Dick in this area, named after Gabriel, the crewman in Jeroboam (APC, 1977, p.14). |
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| Gabriel Peak (USA) | 65° 36' 00.0" S | 62° 39' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 125477
Place ID: 5049
A peak (1,220 m) at the confluence of Starbuck and Jeroboam Glaciers on the E side of Graham Land. The name is one of several in the vicinity applied by UK-APC from Herman Melville's Moby Dick Gabriel being the crewman of the ship |
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