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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| Allan Hills (AUS) | 76° 43' 09.9" S | 159° 39' 00.7" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 655
Place ID: 229
A group of hills, mostly ice-free, 'Y' shaped in plan, about 15 km NNW of Mount Brooke. The hills lie in the most south-westerly sources of the Mawson Glacier (Ross Dependency). Discovered by the New Zealand party of the TAE (1957-58). |
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| Auster Rookery (AUS) | 67° 23' 46.0" S | 63° 57' 02.5" E | Colony |
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Name ID: 2462
Place ID: 655
An Emperor penguin colony on sea-ice, sheltered by grounded icebergs about 51 km ENE of Mawson. Discovered in August, 1957, by Flying Officer, D. Johnston RAAF from an ANARE Auster aircraft, after which it was named. |
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