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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| Arrowhead Nunatak (AUS) | 82° 34' 00.1" S | 157° 22' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1843
Place ID: 540
A long, narrow nunatak, which in plan has a distinctive head and tail resembling an arrow, lying in the Nimrod Glacier towards the head of that glacier. Discovered and named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960-61). |
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| Brian Island (GBR) | 68° 08' 00.0" S | 67° 07' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 107946
Place ID: 1843
W-most of the Debenham Islands, Fallières coast, was charted by BGLE in February 1936 (Rymill, 1938a, p.12); named Brian after Herbert Brian Debenham (b. 1923), second son of Prof. Frank Debenham (Debenham Islands, q.v.) (BA chart 3213, 7.ii.1947). Brian Island (USHO chart 6651, 1946; BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.6). Islote Brian (Argentina. MM chart 116, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.216). Isla Brian (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.199; IHA, 1974, p.55). |
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| Brian Island (USA) | 68° 08' 00.0" S | 67° 07' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 122927
Place ID: 1843
The westernmost of the Debenham Islands, off the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill, who named it for a son of Frank Debenham, member of the BGLE Advisory Committee. |
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| Brian, Isla (CHL) | 68° 08' 00.0" S | 67° 06' 30.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105237
Place ID: 1843
Fue cartografiada por la BGLE de 1934-1937, al mando de John Rymill, quien le dio el nombre por el de un hijo de Frank Debenham, miembro del Comité Consultor de la BGLE. Es la más occidental de las islas Debenham, en bahía Margarita, situada entre la isla Millerand y la costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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