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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| Hollick-Kenyon Plateau (RUS) | 79° 00' 00.0" S | 100° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
| Name ID: 118478 Place ID: 6508 | |||
| Hollick-Kenyon Plateau (USA) | 78° 00' 00.0" S | 105° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 126623
Place ID: 6508
A large, relatively featureless snow plateau, 1,200 m to 1,800 m above sea level, located between the northern portion of the Ellsworth Mountains, to the east, and Mount Takahe and Crary Mountains, to the west. Discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on his trans-Antarctic airplane flight during November-December 1935, and named by Ellsworth for his pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. |
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