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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Cape Batterbee (AUS) | 65° 50' 21.0" S | 53° 48' 06.2" E | Cape |
Name ID: 288
Place ID: 1001
A small, rocky point on the coast, the most northerly cape of Enderby Land. Discovered by BANZARE (1929-31) on 13 January, 1930. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Sir Henry Fagg Batterbee, Assistant Secretary of the Dominions Office, London, at the time of the expedition. |
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Cape Batterbee (RUS) | 65° 51' 00.0" S | 53° 47' 00.0" E | Cape |
Name ID: 116991 Place ID: 1001 | |||
Cape Batterbee (USA) | 65° 51' 00.0" S | 53° 48' 00.0" E | Cape |
Name ID: 122273
Place ID: 1001
Ice-covered cape with prominent rock exposures protruding through the coastal ice cliffs, marking the most northerly projection of Enderby Land, just E of Proclamation Island. Discovered on Jan. 13, 1930 by the BANZARE under Mawson, and named by him for Sir Harry Fagg Batterbee, then Asst. Sec. of the Dominions Office. |
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Manning Island (AUS) | 69° 21' 18.0" S | 76° 20' 00.0" E | Island |
Name ID: 1001
Place ID: 8950
An island about 1.9 km north of Broknes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Vikxy (Bay Island) by Norwegian cartographers. |
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