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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| Hollin Island (AUS) | 66° 19' 16.0" S | 110° 24' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 920
Place ID: 6509
An island just north of Midgley Island, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump, (1946-47). Named after J.T. Hollin, glaciologist at Wilkes in 1958. |
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| Mount Barnes (NZL) | 77° 38' 00.0" S | 163° 35' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 112730
Place ID: 920
A promontory about 1200m high, surmounting the west central side of New Harbour, and forming the eastern extremity of the Kukri Hills in Victoria Land. This feature was discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, and appeared on the charts of the expedition as New Harbour Heights. It was renamed by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia, on the charts of the BAE, 1910-13, after a Canadian ice physicist named Barnes. |
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| Mount Barnes (RUS) | 77° 37' 00.0" S | 163° 36' 00.0" E | Mountain |
| Name ID: 116975 Place ID: 920 | |||
| Mount Barnes (USA) | 77° 38' 00.0" S | 163° 35' 00.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122214
Place ID: 920
Peak, 985 m, surmounting the west-central side of New Harbor and marking the E end of the Kukri Hills, in Victoria Land. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, under Scott, and named New Harbour Heights. It was renamed Mount Barnes after a Canadian ice physicist by Scott's second expedition, the BrAE, 1910-13. |
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