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)
Fossil Bight (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fossil Bight (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bight (3)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A shallow recession in the N coast of Seymour Island, 1 mi NNE of Cape Lamas. The feature was called "Fossil Bay" or "Bahia Fosiles" by USARP and Argentine researchers because of fossils found here in 1982. The generic term bight is considered appropriate to this feature.
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