Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Balch, Monte (CHL) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 63° 58' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 105142
Place ID: 809
Descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1908-1910, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien lo llamó así por Edwin Swift Balch, autor norteamericano y autoridad en exploraciones polares. Gracias a sus investigaciones se sabe que la Antártica posiblemente haya sido descubierta en 1603 por el almirante español Gabriel de Castilla, Maestre de Campo General en la Guerra de Arauco, Chile, según declaraciones de Laurenz Claess en Holanda el año 1608 quien navegó a las órdenes de Castilla, información que Balch encontró en el Archivo Municipal de La Haya, Holanda. Monte de aproximadamente 1.100 metros de elevación, que se ubica entre el monte Peary y el monte Mill, a 3 millas al E del cabo Rasmussen, costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Keel Island (AUS) | 67° 20' 36.2" S | 59° 19' 54.8" E | Island |
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Name ID: 809
Place ID: 7410
A small island about 3 km long and 1.5 km wide, on the eastern side of Stafansson Bay about 2 km south of Fold Island. Visited by an ANARE party led by Peter W. Crohn in 1956. |
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| Mount Balch (GBR) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 107641
Place ID: 809
rising to c. 1105m, NE of Waddington Bay, Graham Coast, was sighted by FAE, 1908-10, and named Sommet Swift Balch after E.S. Balch (Balch Glacier, q.v.) (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 4). Mount Swift Balch (USHO, 1943, p.139). Mount Balch (USBGN, 1956, p.51; APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). The mountain was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57. Monte Balch (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.38). |
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| Mount Balch (USA) | 65° 16' 00.0" S | 63° 59' 00.0" W | Mountain |
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Name ID: 122131
Place ID: 809
An E-W trending mountain with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary and Mount Mill on the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot and named by him for Edwin Swift Balch, American author and authority on Antarctic exploration. |
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