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
Lenton Bluff (GBR) 79° 00' 00.0" S 28° 13' 00.0" W Bluff
Name ID: 109797 Place ID: 8331

rising to c. 600m and marking NE side of the mouth of Jeffries Glacier, Theron Mountains, was surveyed by TAE from "Shackleton", 1956-57, and named after R.A. Lenton (Lenton Point, q.v.) (APC, 1962, p.19; DOS 610 sheet W 79 28/30, 1963).

Lenton Bluff (USA) 79° 00' 00.0" S 28° 13' 00.0" W Bluff
Name ID: 127943 Place ID: 8331

Rock bluff on the N side of the mouth of Jeffries Glacier in the Theron Mountains. First mapped in 1956-57 by the CTAE and named for Ralph A. Lenton, deputy leader of the advance party of the CTAE in 1955-56 and carpenter and radio operator with the transpolar party in 1956-58.

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