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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| Cape Lankester (USA) | 79° 16' 00.0" S | 160° 29' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 127790
Place ID: 8111
A high, rounded, snow-covered cape at the S side of the entrance to Mulock Inlet, along the W edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. Discovered and named by the BrNAE (1901-04). Probably named for Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum (1898-1907) and founder of the Marine Biological Association in 1884. |
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| Lankester, Cape (NZL) | 79° 15' 34.3" S | 160° 29' 22.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 113735
Place ID: 8111
A low, snow-covered headland forming the southern entrance to Mulock Inlet, along the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ML07 |
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