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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| Laclavère Plateau (GBR) | 63° 27' 00.0" S | 57° 45' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 109685
Place ID: 7990
ice cap running E-W and rising to 1035m in central Trinity Peninsula, probably forms the greater part of the feature called Meseta General Barrios by CAE in 1948, after General Guillermo Barrios Tirado, Chilean Minister of National Defence at the time (Chile. IGM, 1948b, sketch panorama following p.56); following survey by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61, named Laclavère Plateau after Georges R. Laclavère (1906-1994), French cartographer and President of SCAR, 1958-63 (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. |
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| Laclavère Plateau (USA) | 63° 27' 00.0" S | 57° 47' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 127695
Place ID: 7990
A plateau, 10 mi long and from 1 to 3 mi wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula. The plateau rises S of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, General Bernardo O'Higgins. Named by UK-APC (1963) after Georges R. Laclavere, French cartographer, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1958-63. |
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