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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| Mount Kuipers (NZL) | 77° 54' 35.5" S | 161° 24' 06.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 139542
Place ID: 7890
An ice-free mountain at 1942m between Mount Benninghoff 2km to the west and the peak of Knobhead 3.5km to the east, in Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MG08 |
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| Mount Kuipers (USA) | 77° 54' 00.0" S | 161° 24' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 127635
Place ID: 7890
An ice-free mountain (1,940 m) between Mount Benninghoff and Knobhead in Quartermain Mountains, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after Ronald L. Kuipers, formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency; from 1968-80 associated with committees within the U.S. Government responsible for coordinating Antarctic policy; initiated and collaborated in the authorship of the atlas Polar Regions, CIA, 1978. |
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