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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| Brockhamp Islands (GBR) | 67° 17' 00.0" S | 67° 57' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 107966
Place ID: 1880
two islands at N end of Laubeuf Fjord, Loubet Coast, were photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Bernhard Brockhamp (1902-68), German glaciologist and Professor of Geophysics, University of Münster, who with H. Mothes (Mothes Point, q.v.) made the first seismic soundings of a glacier, in Austria in 1926; member of German Greenland Expedition, 1930-31 (A.L.Wegener, Mount Wegener, q.v.) (APC, 1960, p.3; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). Islotes Brockhamp (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9) |
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| Brockhamp Islands (USA) | 67° 17' 00.0" S | 67° 56' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 122957
Place ID: 1880
Two small islands in Laubeuf Fjord, lying 3 mi SW of Mothes Point, Adelaide Island. Mapped by the FIDS from RARE air photos, 1947-48, and FIDS surveys, 1948-50. Named by UK-APC for Bernhard Brockhamp, German glaciologist who, with H. Mothes, made the first seismic soundings of a glacier, in Austria in 1926. |
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| Brockhamp, islotes (ARG) | 67° 17' 00.0" S | 67° 56' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 100353 Place ID: 1880 | |||
| Krasin Nunataks (AUS) | 68° 19' 59.9" S | 49° 55' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1880
Place ID: 7809
Nunataks about 20 km south-east of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition which named them after the Soviet icebreaker Krasin. |
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