Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Polar Bear Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Polar Bear Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point (8)
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:
An ice-covered point 1.2 mi SE of Castle Rock on the E side of Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island. A breached crater stands 0.7 mi NNW, but no rock is exposed on the point which is well defined and elevated at the juncture with McMurdo Ice Shelf. The name is allusive; when viewed from the W, the appearance of the point is suggestive of the head, neck, and fore part of an Arctic polar bear. Named by US-ACAN, 2000.
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