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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| Craggy Island (GBR) | 62° 27' 43.5" S | 60° 17' 37.3" W | Island |
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Name ID: 108338
Place ID: 3077
E of Desolation Island, off Livingston Island, was known to nineteenth-century sealers who frequented Blythe Bay (q.v.) from 1820; roughly charted as Fildes Rocks (Fildes, 1821b, chart [1]); recharted by DI in 1935 and named descriptively Craggy Islet (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.8). Islote Escarpado [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart ALFA, 1954; Pierrou, 1970, p.344; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.116). Craggy Island (APC, 1959a, p.5; BA, 1961, p.236; chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). |
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| Craggy Island (USA) | 62° 28' 00.0" S | 60° 19' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 123897
Place ID: 3077
Narrow island marked by crags, lying close off the E side of Desolation Island and forming the NE side of Blythe Bay, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted in 1935 by DI personnel on the Discovery II who gave this descriptive name. |
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| Escarpado, islote (ARG) | 62° 29' 00.0" S | 60° 16' 00.0" W | Island |
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| Escarpado, Islote (CHL) | 62° 29' 00.0" S | 60° 16' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105507
Place ID: 3077
El accidente era conocido a principios del siglo pasado por los foqueros que fondeaban en la isla Desolación. Denominado descriptivamente por la expedición Discovery en 1935. Islote situado a 4 cables al SE de punta Este, es largo y angosto, con una altura de 64 metros. |
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