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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| Mount Harkness (NZL) | 86° 04' 00.0" S | 150° 36' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 113477
Place ID: 6014
A mountain, about 1676m high, standing close to Mt Zanuck and forming part of the east wall of Robert Scott Glacier in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered in December 1934 by the Geological Party, led by Blackburn, of the Byrd AE, 1933-35. Named at that time by Byrd for Bruce Harkness, a friend of Richard S Russell, a member of that party. |
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| Mount Harkness (RUS) | 86° 03' 00.0" S | 148° 00' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 118373 Place ID: 6014 | |||
| Mount Harkness (USA) | 86° 04' 00.0" S | 150° 36' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 126208
Place ID: 6014
A mountain, 1,900 m, standing 1.5 mi S of Organ Pipe Peaks and forming part of the E wall of Scott Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named at that time by R. Admiral Byrd for Bruce Harkness, friend of Richard S. Russell, Jr., a member of that party. |
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