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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Benz Pass (GBR) | 63° 41' 00.0" S | 58° 24' 00.0" W | Pass |
Name ID: 107759
Place ID: 1198
at c. 750m between Russell West Glacier and Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport in this area, named after Karl Friedrich Benz (1844-1929), German engineer who constructed the first practical petrol motor-car in 1885 (APC, 1964, p.2; BAS sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Paso Farrel, so called by AAE after a captain in the Argentine Army (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter F). |
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Benz Pass (USA) | 63° 41' 00.0" S | 58° 22' 00.0" W | Pass |
Name ID: 122431
Place ID: 1198
A narrow pass between the S cliffs of Louis Philippe Plateau and a rock nunatak 2 mi NE of the head of Russell East Glacier, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61). Named by UK-APC for Karl Benz (1844-1929), German engineer who constructed the first practical gasoline motor car, in 1885. |
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