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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| Helmert Bank (USA) | 75° 00' 00.0" S | 29° 20' 00.0" W | Bank |
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Name ID: 126404
Place ID: 6231
A bank in the Weddell Sea named for Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843-1917), geodesist. Name proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 271). |
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| Helmert Bank (GEBCO) | 75° 00' 00.0" S | 29° 20' 00.0" W | Bank |
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Name ID: 136517
Place ID: 6231
Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after Friedrich Robert Helmert (1843-1917), geodesist. Director of the Prussian Geodetic Institute, Potsdam, and of the Central Bureau for International Earth Measurement (Erdmessung). Least depth: < 400 m. |
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