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 Homard (GBR) | 80° 40' 00.0" S | 29° 50' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 109356
Place ID: 6548
highest peak (1200m) in Otter Highlands, Shackleton Range, following survey by TAE in 1957, was named after Sgt Major (WO I) (later Major) Desmond Edgar Lemuel ("Roy") Homard, REME (b. 1921), engineer with the advance party and trans-polar party, TAE, 1955-58; engineer, British North Greenland Expedition, 1952-54 (APC, 1962, p.16; DOS 610 sheet W 80 28/30, 1963). |
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| Mount Homard (USA) | 80° 40' 00.0" S | 29° 50' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 126658
Place ID: 6548
Mountain, 1,200 m, near the head of Blaiklock Glacier, 2 mi S of Trey Peaks in the W part of the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the CTAE and named for Sgt. Major Desmond E.L. Homard, engineer with the advance party and transpolar party of the CTAE, 1955-58. |
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