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
Shenzhou Wan (CHN) 69° 25' 19.6" S 76° 09' 37.1" E Fjord
Name ID: 106671 Place ID: 14579

It's a deep water cove between Stornes Peninsula, Zhuhai Bandao and Tangren Shandi. The icecap of the south coast exists all year round.There are hanging ice and steep walls in the west coast. A long and narrow cove extends between Zhuhai Bandao and Tangren Shandi. It was named when aerial photos surveying and mapping in 1993.

Thala Fjord (AUS) 69° 25' 20.0" S 76° 09' 36.0" E Fjord
Name ID: 423 Place ID: 14579

A bay east of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1937-37 and called Pollen (the deep bay).

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