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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| Kvævefjellet (NOR) | 71° 53' 00.0" S | 14° 27' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 115490
Place ID: 7931
Mountain N in Payerfjella, Hoelfjella in Fimbulheimen. Kvæve=cirque. Referes to cirques in the mountain. |
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| Kvaevefjellet Mountain (USA) | 71° 52' 00.0" S | 14° 27' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 127651
Place ID: 7931
An elongated mountain, about 6 mi long and surmounted by Mount Fucík, which has been eroded by the ice into a series of spurs that enclose small cirques, standing at the N end of the Payer Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Discovered and plotted from air photos by GerAE, 1938-39. Replotted from air photos and surveys by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956-60, and named Kvaevefjellet. |
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