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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| Igloo Hill (GBR) | 64° 33' 00.0" S | 61° 47' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 109455
Place ID: 6854
rising to c. 750m on Reclus Peninsula, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-59; so named because the shape of this completely ice-covered feature resembles that of an Eskimo igloo (APC, 1960, p.5; [incorrectly shown 3km to S] BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Igloo Hill (USA) | 64° 33' 00.0" S | 61° 47' 00.0" W | Hill |
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Name ID: 126909
Place ID: 6854
Completely ice-covered hill, 280 m, in the central part of Reclus Peninsula on the W coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Given this descriptive name by the UK-APC in 1960. |
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