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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| Blunt Bay (AUS) | 66° 54' 00.0" S | 108° 48' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 114
Place ID: 1493
A small bay at the head of Vincennes Bay at the eastern end of Knox Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and called Blunt Cove by USACAN after S F Blunt, passed midshipman on the sloop Vincennes, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm. C Wilkes), USN. |
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| Blunt Cove (USA) | 66° 54' 00.0" S | 108° 48' 00.0" E | Cove |
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Name ID: 122654
Place ID: 1493
A cove in the southwest extremity of Vincennes Bay. First mapped (1955) by G.D. Blodgett from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1947). Named by US-ACAN after Simon F. Blunt, Passed Midshipman on the sloop Vincennes during the USEE (1838-42) under Lt. Charles Wilkes. |
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