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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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Lake Stinear (AUS) | 68° 33' 37.8" S | 78° 07' 31.4" E | Water body |
Name ID: 1234
Place ID: 14046
A salt-water lake about 6 km ENE of Davis station in the Vestfold Hills. It is about 3 km long and 0.5 km wide, elongated east-west. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). First visited by ANARE party led by Phillip Law in January, 1955. |
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Stinear Lake (RUS) | 68° 34' 00.0" S | 78° 11' 00.0" E | Water body |
Name ID: 120794 Place ID: 14046 | |||
Stinear Lake (USA) | 68° 34' 00.0" S | 78° 08' 00.0" E | Water body |
Name ID: 132193
Place ID: 14046
A salt-water lake, 1.5 mi long and 0.25 mi wide, lying immediately E of Lake Dingle on Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. First visited by an ANARE in 1955. Named by ANCA for Bruce H. Stinear, geologist at Davis and Mawson Stations for several seasons in the period 1954-59. |
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