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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| Baldwin Peak (GBR) | 64° 22' 00.0" S | 60° 44' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 107645
Place ID: 818
rising to c. 2100m SE of Brialmont Cove, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57 and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-59; in association with the names of aviation pioneers grouped in this area, named after Thomas Scott Baldwin (1860-1923), American inventor in c.1880 of the vent opening that gives control and stability to parachutes (APC, 1960, p.2; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Baldwin Peak (USA) | 64° 23' 00.0" S | 60° 45' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 122139
Place ID: 818
Peak between Lilienthal Glacier and Mount Berry in northern Graham Land. Photographed by the FIDASE in 1956-57 and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Thomas S. Baldwin (1860-1923), American inventor of the vent opening which gives control and stability to parachutes. |
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| Leskov Island (AUS) | 66° 36' 00.0" S | 85° 10' 00.1" E | Island |
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Name ID: 818
Place ID: 8360
An elevation in the surface of the West Ice Shelf rising to 184 m above sea level. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1956). This feature was called Ostrov Leskova (Lednikovyy Kupol) after A. Leskov, Lieutenant of the sloop Vostok, one of the ships of the Bellingshausen Expedition (1819-1821). |
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