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 McArthur (GBR) | 71° 11' 00.0" S | 70° 20' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 110061
Place ID: 9211
highest peak (c. 1450m) in Walton Mountains (q.v.), Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS from 1968 was named after Malcolm McArthur (b.1947), BAS geophysicist, "Stonington Island", 1971-73, who worked in N Alexander Island (APC, 1980, p.4; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/13, 2-DOS 1984). |
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| Mount McArthur (USA) | 71° 11' 00.0" S | 70° 20' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 128600
Place ID: 9211
The highest peak (c. 1,450 m) in the Walton Mountains (q.v.), Alexander Island. Named by UK-APC after Malcolm McArthur, BAS geophysicist at Stonington Island, 1971-73, who worked in northern Alexander Island. |
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