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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| Hall Cliff (GBR) | 71° 59' 00.0" S | 68° 37' 00.0" W | Cliff |
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Name ID: 109174
Place ID: 5897
rising to c. 450m on S side of Saturn Glacier, S Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS from "Fossil Bluff", 1961-73, was named in association with the glacier after Asaph Hall (1829-1907), American astronomer who contributed towards the discovery of Saturn and who also discovered the satellites of Mars (APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 2-DOS 1984). |
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| Hall Cliff (USA) | 71° 59' 00.0" S | 68° 37' 00.0" W | Cliff |
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Name ID: 126106
Place ID: 5897
A sandstone cliff 1 mi long, located along the S side of Saturn Glacier and 1 mi W of Citadel Bastion in eastern Alexander Island. The feature was mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by RARE, 1947-48, and from survey by FIDS, 1948-50. Named by UK-APC from association with Saturn Glacier after Asaph Hall (1829-1907), the American astronomer who contributed toward the discovery of Saturn and also discovered the satellites of the planet Mars. |
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