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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| Hofmann Trough (USA) | 77° 00' 00.0" S | 32° 30' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 126590
Place ID: 6465
A bank in the Weddell Sea named for Walther Hofmann (1920-1993), cartographer/photogrammetrist on Arctic/Antarctic expeditions. 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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| Hofmann Trough (GEBCO) | 77° 00' 00.0" S | 32° 30' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 136522
Place ID: 6465
Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after Walther Hofmann (1920-1993), cartographer and photogrammetrist, with particular emphasis on glaciology. President of the German Society of Polar Research. |
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