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
Adare Seamounts (USA) 70° 00' 00.0" S 171° 30' 00.0" E
Name ID: 121589 Place ID: 70

Seamounts in Balleny Basin named in association with Adare Peninsula and Cape Adare. Name approved 6/88 (ACUF 228).

Adare Seamounts (GEBCO) 70° 10' 00.0" S 171° 50' 00.0" E
Name ID: 136443 Place ID: 70

Wright Bay (AUS) 66° 34' 00.1" S 93° 42' 00.0" E Bay
Name ID: 70 Place ID: 16230

An embayment on the western side of the Helen Glacier on the coast of Queen Mary Land. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr. C.S. Wright of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13).

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