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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| Livonia Rock (GBR) | 62° 02' 02.3" S | 57° 34' 22.2" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 109868
Place ID: 8550
rock awash on S side of Cape Melville, King George Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the sealing ship Livonia (Capt. Nowell) from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1960, p.5; DOS 610 sheet W 62 56, 1968). |
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| Livonia Rock (USA) | 62° 02' 00.0" S | 57° 36' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 128127
Place ID: 8550
Rock lying 0.5 mi S of Cape Melville, the E extremity of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the sealing vessel Livonia from London, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22. |
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