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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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Carroll Inlet (RUS) | 73° 00' 00.0" S | 78° 50' 00.0" W | Inlet |
Name ID: 117382 Place ID: 2356 | |||
Carroll Inlet (GBR) | 73° 18' 00.0" S | 78° 30' 00.0" W | Inlet |
Name ID: 108098
Place ID: 2356
between Rydberg Peninsula and Smyley Island, English Coast, was seen from the air by USAS in December 1940 and named after Arthur J. Carroll, Chief Photographer at the expedition's "East Base" (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942; Ronne, 1945, map p.14; USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; APC, 1975, p.3). Ensenada Carroll (Argentina. IGM map 1946). The inlet was also seen from the air by RARE in December 1947. Ensenada Carrll [sic] (Chile. IGM map, 1947). Estero Carroll (Chile. DNH chart [no number], 1947). Carroll Fjord (Hansen, chart [no number], 1947. Seno Carroll (Argentina. MM chart N- P -1, 1952). Bukhta Karroll (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Carrol [sic] Inlet (France. SHM chart 5879, 1956). Canal Carroll (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.203; IHA, 1974, p.67). The inlet was photographed from the air by USN in 1965-66 and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Ensenada Carrol (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). Estrecho Carroll, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.68). |
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Carroll Inlet (USA) | 73° 18' 00.0" S | 78° 30' 00.0" W | Inlet |
Name ID: 123331
Place ID: 2356
An inlet, 40 mi long and 6 mi wide, trending SE along the coast of Ellsworth Land between Rydberg Peninsula and Smyley Island. The head of the inlet is divided into two arms by the presence of Case Island and is bounded to the E by Stange Ice Shelf. Discovered on an airplane flight, Dec. 22, 1940, by members of the USAS (1939-41), and named after Arthur J. Carroll, chief aerial photographer on USAS flights from the East Base. |
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Whitworth Ridge (AUS) | 70° 23' 36.0" S | 66° 06' 35.0" E | Ridge |
Name ID: 2356
Place ID: 16007
A rock ridge about 4 km north-east of Mount Leckie in the Porthos Range, Prince Charles Mountains. The ridge is about 3 km long in an east-west direction. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956. Named after R. Whitworth, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1963. |
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