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
Komsa (NOR) 72° 08' 00.0" S 25° 22' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 115453 Place ID: 7726

Mountain ridge E of Urfjell in the middle part of Sør-Rondane. K.=a sort of cradle for carrying the Sami peoples children.

Komsa Mountain (USA) 72° 05' 00.0" S 25° 21' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 127547 Place ID: 7726

Mountain, 2,960 m, between Koms Glacier and Salen Mountain in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named Komsa (the Lapp cradle).

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