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 Moore (RUS) | 80° 25' 00.0" S | 97° 30' 00.0" W | Mountain |
| Name ID: 119505 Place ID: 9812 | |||
| Mount Moore (USA) | 80° 25' 00.0" S | 97° 45' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 129076
Place ID: 9812
Mount Moore is approximately 2270 meters above sea level; the summit rises 305 meters above the surrounding snow surface. With only Mount Woollard nearby, 8 mi to the S, it stands about 150 mi W of the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party on Feb. 4, 1958, and named after Lt. John P. Moore, USNR (1928-55), a helicopter pilot aboard the USS Atka, who perished in a helicopter crash near Kainan Bay in January 1955. |
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