Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Luncke Range (USA) | 72° 02' 00.0" S | 24° 42' 00.0" E | Range |
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Name ID: 128230
Place ID: 8725
Range of peaks rising to 3,020 m, extending in a N-S direction for 10 mi between Jennings Glacier and Gjel Glacier in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named for Bernhard Luncke, Norwegian cartographer who plotted the maps in H.E. Hansen's Atlas of Parts of the Antarctic Coastal Lands, 1946, and a revision covering the Sor Rondane Mountains, 1957. |
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| Lunckeryggen (NOR) | 72° 02' 30.0" S | 24° 36' 00.0" E | Range |
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Name ID: 115570
Place ID: 8725
Mountain ridge S-wards from Brattnipane between Jenningsbreen and Gjelbreen, in the middle part of Sør-Rondane. After Bernhard Luncke, 1894-1963, topographer to Norges Svalbard- og Ishavs-undersøkelser and later Norsk Polarinstitutt. Leader of NorAE,1957-58. See also Bernhardtinden. |
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