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
Mentzel Berg (RUS) 71° 21' 00.0" S 13° 37' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 119375 Place ID: 9437

Mentzelberg (DEU) 71° 22' 00.0" S 13° 39' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 106996 Place ID: 9437

A peak (Norwegian name Mentzelfjellet) standing 6 km E of Bastei and 10 km W of Todtriegel, Otto-von-Gruber-Gebirge, Wohlthatmassiv, Fimbulheimen, Neuschwabenland, Dronning Maud Land. Discovered during German Antarctic Expedition 1938/39 ('Neuschwabenland-Expedition') under Alfred Ritscher.

Mentzelfjellet (NOR) 71° 22' 00.0" S 13° 40' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 115609 Place ID: 9437

Large mountain in E part of Gruberfjella, Wohlthatmassivet in Fimbulheimen. After Rudolf Mentzel, b. 1900, the president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society) 1936-45.

Mount Mentzel (USA) 71° 22' 00.0" S 13° 40' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 128800 Place ID: 9437

A peak (2,330 m) standing 6 mi E of Mount Zimmermann in the Gruber Mountains of Queen Maud Land. Discovered by the GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named for the president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Society).

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