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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| Bamse Mountain (USA) | 72° 15' 00.0" S | 22° 18' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122164
Place ID: 851
Mountain, 2,500 m, standing 11 mi W of Mount Nils Larsen in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named Bamsefjell (bear mountain). |
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| Bamsefjell (NOR) | 72° 16' 00.0" S | 21° 54' 30.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 114853
Place ID: 851
Mountain between Kreitzerisen and H.E. Hansenbreen in the W part of Sør-Rondane. B.=bear mountain. |
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| Bamsenfjell (RUS) | 72° 17' 00.0" S | 22° 20' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 116954 Place ID: 851 | |||
| Hippo Island (AUS) | 66° 25' 09.0" S | 98° 10' 36.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 851
Place ID: 6405
A small, steep, rocky island about 1 km long and about 75 m high, rising above the Shackleton Ice Shelf, about 3 km north of Delay Point, Queen Mary Land. Discovered and named by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). So named because it is shaped like a hippopotamus. |
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