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
Kagami Daira (JPN) 72° 35' 00.0" S 31° 10' 00.0" E Ice field
Name ID: 112362 Place ID: 7299

A bare ice field in the central part of Monts Belgica. JARE took air photos in 1976 and surveyed in 1979-80, and named Kagami Daira (mirror flat) because of its extremely flat surface.

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