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 Mathew (AUS) | 81° 40' 59.9" S | 159° 57' 00.0" E | Mountain |
Name ID: 1633
Place ID: 9136
A peak in the Surveyors Range. Discovered by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61). Named after F. Mathew, the first Surveyor-General of New Zealand. |
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Mount Mathew (NZL) | 81° 41' 01.4" S | 159° 56' 25.1" E | Mountain |
Name ID: 139990
Place ID: 9136
A peak, c.2030m, at the east side of Starshot Glacier, 3.5km north of Mount Hotine, in Surveyors Range. |
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Mount Mathew (USA) | 81° 41' 00.0" S | 159° 57' 00.0" E | Mountain |
Name ID: 128538
Place ID: 9136
A peak, 2,030 m, standing at the E side of Starshot Glacier, 2 mi N of Mount Hotine, in the Surveyors Range. Named by the NZGSAE (1960-61) for Felton Mathew, the first Surveyor-General of New Zealand, in 1840. |
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