Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Charcot Bay (RUS) | 63° 45' 00.0" S | 59° 30' 00.0" W | Bay |
| Name ID: 117416 Place ID: 2530 | |||
| Charcot Bay (GBR) | 63° 48' 00.0" S | 59° 32' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 108155
Place ID: 2530
between Whittle Peninsula and Cape Kjellman, Davis Coast, was charted by SwAE in 1902 and named Charcot Bucht, after Dr Jean-Baptiste Etienne August Charcot (1867-1936), French polar explorer; Commander of FAE, 1903-05 and 1908-10, and of subsequent expeditions to Greenland, who was lost with his ship Pourquoi-Pas? (Pourquoi Pas Island, q.v.) off Iceland, 16 September 1936 (Andersson, 1904c, p.216; Nordenskjöld, 1917, map facing p.68). Gvas Bay, referring collectively to this bay and to Bone Bay, after the steam whaling ship Gvas (Kapt. A. Kristinasen) (Johannessen, chart, [1919-20]). Charcot Bay (BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; APC, 1955, p.7; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Charcot B. (HA chart, 1928). Baie Charcot (France. SHM, 1937, p.403). Bahïa Charcot (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.282; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.73). Bahïa de Charcot (Gándara Bofil, 1953, p.343). The bay was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1959-60. Zaliv Sharko (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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| Charcot Bay (USA) | 63° 48' 00.0" S | 59° 35' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 123464
Place ID: 2530
A bay about 10 mi wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the SwedAE, 1901-04, under Nordenskjold. He named it for Dr. Jean B. Charcot, at that time a noted Arctic explorer preparing for his first Antarctic expedition, on which he planned to look for Nordenskjold whose return was overdue. |
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| Charcot, bahía (ARG) | 63° 50' 00.0" S | 59° 40' 00.0" W | Bay |
| Name ID: 100480 Place ID: 2530 | |||
| Charcot, Bahía (CHL) | 63° 48' 00.0" S | 59° 37' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 105311
Place ID: 2530
Fue descubierta por la Expedición Sueca de 1901-1903, al mando de Otto Nordenskjöld quien le denominó así por el Dr. Jean Baptiste Etienne Uguste Charcot, célebre explorador del Ártico que en aquel tiempo preparaba su primera expedición Antártica, con la cual planeaba ir en ayuda de Nordenskjöld sobre cuyo regreso existían dudas. Bahía que mide 8,5 millas de ancho en su boca por igual cantidad de saco y se abre entre los cabos Kjellman y Kater, costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Sharks Tooth (AUS) | 76° 01' 59.9" S | 159° 37' 59.9" E | Tooth |
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Name ID: 2530
Place ID: 13097
A small steep-sided, tooth-like rock south, of McLea Nunatak (in Ross Dependency). Discovered and named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1962-63). |
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