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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| Bowman Island (AUS) | 65° 12' 00.0" S | 103° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1048
Place ID: 1698
An ice-covered island, about 44 km long and 4-11 km wide, shaped like a figure eight, about 53 km north-east of Cape Elliott on the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. Discovered on 28 January, 1931, by BANZARE (1929-31), under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society. |
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| Bowman Island (RUS) | 65° 12' 00.0" S | 103° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 117204 Place ID: 1698 | |||
| Bowman Island (USA) | 65° 17' 00.0" S | 103° 07' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 122814
Place ID: 1698
A high ice-covered island, about 24 mi long and from 2 to 6 mi wide, shaped like a figure eight. The feature rises above the NE part of Shackleton Ice Shelf, which partially encloses the island, 25 mi NE of Cape Elliott. Discovered on Jan. 28, 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it for Isaiah Bowman, then Director of the American Geographical Society. |
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| Mulgrew Nunatak (AUS) | 79° 39' 00.0" S | 157° 55' 59.9" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1698
Place ID: 9950
A prominent nunatak, 1710 m above sea level, in the Darwin Glacier at about its mid-length. Discovered by the Darwin Glacier Party of the TSAE (1956-58). Named after P.D. Mulgrew, chief radio operator at Scott Base, who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole. |
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