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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| Alan Peak (USA) | 72° 39' 00.0" S | 0° 11' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 121652
Place ID: 162
A peak at the W side of the mouth of Reece Valley, in the S part of the Sverdrup Mountains in Queen Maud Land. Plotted from air photos by the GerAE (1938-39). Remapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by NBSAE (1949-52) and air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958-59). Named for Alan Reece, geologist with the NBSAE (1949-52) and earlier with the FIDS. |
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| Bertalan Peak (USA) | 72° 04' 00.0" S | 167° 08' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 122476
Place ID: 1260
A peak (2,320 m) standing at the NW side of the head of Montecchi Glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN for Robert E. Bertalan, USN, chief machinery repairman at McMurdo Station, 1967. |
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| DeGalan Peak (USA) | 80° 07' 00.0" S | 155° 55' 00.0" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 135968
Place ID: 17461
A peak that rises to 2470 m at the head of Magnis Valley in Britannia Range. Named after Lee DeGalan, contractor employee in charge of USAP cargo shipments out of Port Hueneme, CA, for more than 20 years. |
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