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)
Basilisk Crag (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Basilisk Crag (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Crag
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Serrated crag, NE-trending and rising to c. 70 m above sea level, NE Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands. Named after The Basilisk, King of the Serpents, a gigantic mythical monster, and also after a present-day lizard, which the feature crudely resembles (GBR text 1997).
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