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
Kjelbotn Peak (USA) 72° 14' 00.0" S 26° 34' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 127462 Place ID: 7598

Peak, 3,210 m, standing between Isachsen Mountain and Devold Peak in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named for Olav Kjelbotn, who with H. Riiser-Larsen and H. Devold attempted sledge exploration of Princess Ragnhild Coast in 1933.

Kjelbotnnuten (NOR) 72° 20' 00.0" S 26° 50' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 115423 Place ID: 7598

Totoppet nunatak SE of Gunnar Isachsenfjellet in Sør-Rondane. After O. Kjelbotn, who with H. Riiser-Larsen and Hallvard Devold attempted the exploration of Princess Ragnhild Coast by dog sledge in 1933.

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