Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Thala Fjord (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Thala Fjord (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Fjord
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A bay east of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1937-37 and called Pollen (the deep bay).
Named after MV Thala Dan which made the first approach from the sea to the Larsemann Hills in 1957.
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