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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| Morgan Upland (GBR) | 69° 00' 00.0" S | 66° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 110235
Place ID: 9845
ice-covered plateau of S central Graham Land bounded by Cole Glacier and Clarke Glacier to N and W, by Weyerhaeuser Glacier to E, by Airy Glacier to S, and by Hariot Glacier to SW, was photographed from the air by the BAS Air Unit in September 1962 and mapped from the air photographs; named after Ivor Protheroe Morgan (b. 1937), BAS surveyor, "Stonington Island", 1962-63, and Adelaide, 1963-64 (APC, 1974, p.5; BAS 250P sheets SR 19-20/2 and 6, 1-DOS 1978; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979). |
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| Morgan Upland (USA) | 69° 00' 00.0" S | 66° 00' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 129100
Place ID: 9845
Featureless undulating snow plateau in central Antarctic Peninsula bounded by Cole Glacier and Clarke Glacier on the north and west, by Weyerhaeuser Glacier on the east, by Airy Glacier on the south, and Hariot Glacier on the southwest. The area was photographed from the air in Sept. 1962 by the BAS air unit. The photos were used for compiling a map by Ivor P. Morgan, BAS surveyor, 1961-64, for whom the upland is named. |
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