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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| Hess Mesa (NZL) | 77° 37' 52.6" S | 160° 48' 27.7" E | Mesa |
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Name ID: 139572
Place ID: 6326
A small mesa of the Inland Forts that surmounts the divide between Koenig Valley and Mudrey Cirque in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF07 |
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| Hess Mesa (USA) | 77° 38' 00.0" S | 160° 47' 00.0" E | Mesa |
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Name ID: 126492
Place ID: 6326
A small mesa that surmounts the divide between Koenig Valley and Mudrey Cirque in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN for L.O. Hess, Master of USNS Maumee in the Ross Sea Ship Group during Operation Deep Freeze 1970 and 1971. |
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