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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| Melville Highlands (GBR) | 60° 44' 00.0" S | 44° 36' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 110110
Place ID: 9414
rising to c. 500m and forming the ice-covered central part of Laurie Island between Pirie Peninsula and the south coast, South Orkney Islands. Named after Robert Saunders Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27 and 1828-30, whose name was applied by Weddell to Laurie Island in the form "Melville's Island" (Weddell, 1825, map gacing p.25). |
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| Melville Highlands (USA) | 60° 44' 00.0" S | 44° 36' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 128786
Place ID: 9414
An ice-covered upland rising to c. 500 m and forming the central part of Laurie Island between Pirie Peninsula and the south coast, in the South Orkney Islands. A new name applied by the UK-APC in 1987. Historically, it derives from James Weddell's map of 1825 whereon the name "Melville Island" appears for the already named Laurie Island. Robert S. Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771-1851), was First Lord of the Admiralty, 1812-27 and 1828-30, including the period of Antarctic exploration by Weddell. |
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