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 Morley (GBR) | 69° 40' 00.0" S | 71° 34' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 110236
Place ID: 9850
one of the Lassus Mountains (q.v.), NW Alexander Island, rising to c. 1550m, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of composers in this area, named after Thomas Morley (1557-1603), English composer ([in 69°33'S 71°37'W] APC, 1961, p.3; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p.23; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). |
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| Mount Morley (USA) | 69° 40' 00.0" S | 71° 28' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 129105
Place ID: 9850
A mountain rising to c. 1,550 m in the S part of Lassus Mountains, NW Alexander Island. First mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC after Thomas Morley (1557-1603), English composer. |
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