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 Baker (NZL) | 84° 44' 00.0" S | 172° 21' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 112711
Place ID: 791
A mountain about 1000m high, in the foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains on the west side of an as yet unnamed glacier, which flows north-east from the north-east flank of Mt Campbell. Discovered by the US Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party, under A P Crary, in 1957-58, and named for Gladys E Baker, who assisted in analyzing , classifying and reporting upon lichens for the Byrd AE, 1933-35. |
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Mount Baker (USA) | 84° 44' 00.0" S | 172° 21' 00.0" W | Mountain |
Name ID: 122118
Place ID: 791
A mountain (1,480 m) in the SE part of Gabbro Hills near the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, standing at the W side of Gough Glacier, 6 mi E of Amphibole Peak. Discovered by the U.S. Ross Ice Shelf Traverse Party (1957-58) under A.P. Crary, and named for Gladys E. Baker, who assisted in analyzing, classifying and reporting upon lichens for the ByrdAE (1933-35). |
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Neptun Island (AUS) | 66° 09' 09.7" S | 101° 06' 02.8" E | Island |
Name ID: 791
Place ID: 10167
Bunger Hills. Charted by the SAE in 1956. |
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