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)
Usnea Plug (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Usnea Plug (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:
volcanic neck rising to 110 m on SW side of Chester Cone, Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, following geological work by a USARP field party in February 1969, was so named after lichens of the genus Usnea found growing there (Everett, 1971, Fig.2, p.42; APC, 1974, p.6).
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