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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| Mount Lombard (GBR) | 64° 31' 00.0" S | 59° 40' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 109887
Place ID: 8596
rising to 560m on Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Alvin O. Lombard, American engineer of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler Company, Waterville, Maine, who designed some of the earliest successful oversnow tractors in the first application of knowledge of snow mechanics to trafficability, 1901-13 (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 21-22/1 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Mount Lombard (USA) | 64° 31' 00.0" S | 59° 38' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 128166
Place ID: 8596
The highest peak dominating the mountain mass whose S extremity is Cape Sobral, Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61). Named by UK-APC for Alvin O. Lombard, American engineer of the Lombard Steam Log Hauler Co., Waterville, Maine, who designed some of the earliest successful over-snow tractors, the first application of knowledge of snow mechanics to trafficability, 1901-13. |
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