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
Mount Kyffin (NZL) 83° 44' 00.0" S 171° 46' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 113723 Place ID: 7964

A mountain, 1778m high in the Commonwealth Range, projecting into the eastern side of the Beardmore Glacier and rising precipitously above it, about 22 miles up the glacier from Mt Kathleen at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered by the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908. Named for Evan Kyffin-Thomas, one of the proprietors of the Register, an Adelaide, South Australian, newspaper. He was a travelling companion of Shackleon's on the voyage out from England.

Mount Kyffin (USA) 83° 48' 00.0" S 171° 38' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 127670 Place ID: 7964

A distinctive reddish-brown mountain, 1,670 m, with a sloping spur extending 4 mi to the N, at the extreme N end of the Commonwealth Range, projecting into the E side of Beardmore Glacier and rising precipitously above it. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for Evan Kyffin-Thomas, one of the proprietors of the Register, an Adelaide, South Australian newspaper. He was a traveling companion of Shackleton's on the voyage from England.

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