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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| Homeward Point (GBR) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 37' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 109358
Place ID: 6554
W entrance point of Security Bay, Doumer Island, off Anvers Island, was surveyed by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944 and resurveyed by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in co-operation with FIDS, 1956-57; so named because it formed a landmark for the crew of the Survey Unit's motor launch when homeward bound for "Port Lockroy" after a day's survey work in Bismarck Strait (APC, 1959a, p.7; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). |
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| Homeward Point (USA) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 37' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 126661
Place ID: 6554
Point forming the W side of the entrance to Security Bay, on Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago. First charted by the FrAE under Charcot 1903-05. So named by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57 because the point was sighted as a prominent landmark almost daily by the crew of their motor-launch when homeward bond for Port Lockroy at the end of a day's survey work in Bismarck Strait. |
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