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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| Gauss, Mount (NZL) | 76° 18' 52.1" S | 162° 01' 47.2" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 113379
Place ID: 5176
A massif with a cap of black rock, rising to approximately 1131m and lying due north of Mount Chetwynd on the southern side of the Mawson Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MB08 |
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| Mount Gauss (USA) | 76° 19' 00.0" S | 162° 02' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 125578
Place ID: 5176
The northernmost peak of the Kirkwood Range in Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) which named this feature after Prof. Karl Friedrich Gauss (1775-1855), German mathematician and astronomer. |
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