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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| Gale Ridge (GBR) | 83° 41' 00.0" S | 56° 27' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 108951
Place ID: 5069
running NW-SE in Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains, and rising to 1245m at Mount Cowart, was photographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66; named after Phillip E. Gale, USARP meteorologist, "Ellsworth Station", winter 1962 ([in 83 41'S 56 15'W] USBGN, 1965, p.97; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.4). |
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| Gale Ridge (USA) | 83° 41' 00.0" S | 56° 27' 00.0" W | Ridge |
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Name ID: 125491
Place ID: 5069
A ridge, 12 mi long, extending northwestward from Mount Dover in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1956-66. Named by US-ACAN for Phillip L. Gale, meteorologist at Ellsworth Station, winter 1962. |
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