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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| Kukri Hills (NZL) | 77° 44' 00.0" S | 162° 42' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 113722
Place ID: 7892
A peninsula of grey granite surmounted by peaks about 900 to 1800 m high extending about 26 miles in a west-south-west-east-north-east, and forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the south, and Taylor Glacier and Taylor Glacier Dry Valley on the nroth, in Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04,and so named because its shape resembles that of a kukri, a Gurkha knife. |
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| Kukri Hills (RUS) | 77° 43' 00.0" S | 162° 48' 00.0" E | Hill |
| Name ID: 118913 Place ID: 7892 | |||
| Kukri Hills (USA) | 77° 44' 00.0" S | 162° 42' 00.0" E | Hill |
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Name ID: 127637
Place ID: 7892
Prominent E-W trending range, about 25 mi long and over 2,000 m ì high, forming the divide between Ferrar Glacier on the S and ì Taylor Glacier and Taylor Valley on the N, in Victoria Land. ì Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) ì (1901-04) and probably so named because its shape resembles that ì of Kukri, a Gurkha knife. |
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