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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| Bastien Range (USA) | 78° 50' 00.0" S | 86° 00' 00.0" W | Range |
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Name ID: 122262
Place ID: 986
A mountain range of moderate height which extends in a NW-SE direction for about 40 mi, flanking the SW side of Nimitz Glacier and the Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains. Named by US-ACAN for Thomas W. Bastien, geologist, leader of the helicopter supported University of Minnesota Geological Party to these mountains, 1963-64. Bastien was also a member of a party to the Ellsworth Mountains in 1961-62. |
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| Chubuk Island (AUS) | 68° 54' 33.5" S | 77° 51' 50.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 986
Place ID: 2673
Chubuk Island lies immediately to the south-east of Torckler Island in the Rauer Group and is separated from it by about 150 m of water. The highest point on the island is 41 m. Discovered and charted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956. |
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