Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Yankee Harbor (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Yankee Harbor (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Harbour (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:
Small harbor entered between Glacier Bluff and Spit Point, indenting the SW side of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands. Yankee Harbor was known to both American sealers and the British as early as 1820, and this name is now established in international usage. Port Foster, the crater harbor of Deception Island, has at times also been referred to as Yankee Harbor.
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