Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Orella, Islas (CHL) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 65° 38' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106039
Place ID: 15556
El topónimo aparece por primera vez en las cartas chilenas de 1947, probablemente denominadas por la Primera Expedición Antártica Chilena, el nombre se ha mantenido en la actualidad. Están situadas frente a la costa NE de la isla Renaud. Las islas se encuentran cubiertas de nieve. |
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| Vize Islands (GBR) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 65° 37' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 111788
Place ID: 15556
forming NE entrance point of Zubov Bay, Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of sea-ice specialists grouped in this area, named after Vladimir Yul'yevich Vize (1886-1954), Soviet climatologist and oceanographer; author of works on sea ice in the Arctic and pioneer of ice-forecasting methods (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Isla Orella, so called by CAE probably after a member of the expedition (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.217). |
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| Vize Islands (USA) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 65° 37' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 133299
Place ID: 15556
Group of small islands lying 2.5 mi S of Karelin Islands, off the E side of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 for Vladimir Vize, Soviet climatologist and oceanographer, a pioneer of ice forecasting methods and author of numerous works on sea ice in the Arctic. |
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| Vize, islotes (ARG) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 65° 37' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 102432 Place ID: 15556 | |||
| Vize, ostrova (RUS) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 65° 37' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 121230 Place ID: 15556 | |||
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