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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| Axel Heiberg Glacier (NZL) | 85° 25' 00.0" S | 163° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112703
Place ID: 705
A valley glacier, 30 mi long, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in November 1911 by Capt. Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Consul Axel Heiberg, Norwegian business man and patron of science, who contributed to numerous Norwegian polar expeditions. |
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| Axel Heiberg Glacier (USA) | 85° 25' 00.0" S | 163° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122061
Place ID: 705
A valley glacier, 30 mi long, descending from the polar plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in November 1911 by Capt. Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Consul Axel Heiberg, Norwegian business man and patron of science, who contributed to numerous Norwegian polar expeditions. |
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| Axel Heibergbreen (RUS) | 85° 30' 00.0" S | 165° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 116916 Place ID: 705 | |||
| Obruchev Hills (AUS) | 66° 35' 00.0" S | 99° 46' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 705
Place ID: 10519
A group of hills between Cape Jones and Cape Hoadley in Queen Mary Land. These hills were plotted by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14) as a great rock face. The hills were plotted more accurately by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956), who named them after V.A. Obruchev, a distinguished Soviet geologist. |
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