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)
Elephant Flats (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Elephant Flats (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: None recorded.
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:
forming W entrance point of Cemetery Bay, Signy Island, were surveyed by FIDS from Signy in 1947 and so named because elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) haul out on these flats (APC, 1955, p.9; [incorrectly shown as the shallows in Cemetery Bay] DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973; [correctly named] BA, 1974, p.156; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 2-DOS 1975).
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