SCAR Composite Gazetteer

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
Woolpack Island (GBR)	65° 37' 00.0" S	65° 00' 00.0" W	Island
Name ID: 111993 Place ID: 16210 on W side of Grandidier Channel, Graham Coast, NE of Vieugue Island, was charted and named, probably descriptively, by BGLE in August 1935 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.400: BA chart 3196, 12.xi.1948; APC, 1955, p.22; DOS 610 sheet W 6564, 1959). Isla Woolpack (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.96; Pierrou, 1970, p.729; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.304). The island was surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Prospect Point", 1957-58. Isla Wollpack [sic] (Chile. IGM map 9, 1966).
Woolpack Island (USA)	65° 37' 00.0" S	65° 00' 00.0" W	Island
Name ID: 133846 Place ID: 16210 Narrow island 1.5 mi long, lying 4 mi NE of Vieugue Island at the W side of Grandidier Channel, off the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill.
Woolpack, isla (ARG)	65° 37' 00.0" S	65° 00' 00.0" W	Island
Name ID: 102494 Place ID: 16210
Woolpack, Isla (CHL)	65° 38' 00.0" S	65° 00' 00.0" W	Island
Name ID: 106494 Place ID: 16210 Descubierta y denominada por la Expedición Británica que se desarrolló entre los años 1934 y 1937, al mando de John Rymill. Isla de aproximadamente 1 milla de largo situada en el canal Grandidier a más o menos 5 millas al E del lado N de isla Vieugué y a 9 millas al NW de cabo García, en la costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.

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