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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| Balchen Mountain (USA) | 72° 00' 00.0" S | 27° 12' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122128
Place ID: 806
Mountain, 2,820 m, standing at the E side of Byrdbreen in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named for Bernt Balchen, famous Norwegian polar aviator and chief pilot of the ByrdAE, 1928-30. |
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| Balchenfjella (NOR) | 72° 02' 00.0" S | 27° 30' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 114852
Place ID: 806
Mountain area E-most in Sør-Rondane. After Bernt Balchen, Norwegian colonel in the USA Air Force. |
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| Balchenfjella (RUS) | 72° 00' 00.0" S | 27° 12' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 116946 Place ID: 806 | |||
| Kidson Island (AUS) | 67° 12' 45.7" S | 61° 11' 23.6" E | Island |
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Name ID: 806
Place ID: 7509
An island about 28 km NNE of Colbeck Archipelago off the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 18 February, 1931, by BANZARE (1929 31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. |
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