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
Menipa (NOR) 71° 56' 30.0" S 25° 05' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 115608 Place ID: 9436

Mountain in the middle part of Sør-Rondane. Me=landmark.

Menipa (RUS) 71° 56' 00.0" S 25° 08' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 119374 Place ID: 9436

Menipa Peak (USA) 71° 56' 00.0" S 25° 10' 00.0" E Peak
Name ID: 128799 Place ID: 9436

Peak, 2,590 m, standing 5 mi N of Mefjell Mountain in the central part of the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1946 from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Named Menipa (the middle peak) by the Norwegians.

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