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 Daimler (GBR) | 63° 45' 00.0" S | 58° 29' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 108406
Place ID: 3255
rising to 1280m S of Louis-Philippe Plateau, Trinity Peninsula, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), German engineer who developed the light-oil, medium-speed internal combustion engine, which made possible the first commercial production of light mechanical transport, 1883-85 (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Mount Daimler (USA) | 63° 45' 00.0" S | 58° 29' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 124045
Place ID: 3255
The highest point of a rock massif between Russell East Glacier and Victory Glacier, 3 mi S of Mount Canicula, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61). Named by UK-APC for Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900), German engineer who developed the light-oil medium speed internal combustion engine which made possible the first commercial production of light mechanical land transport, 1883-85. |
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