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
Ostryj, mys (RUS) 69° 55' 00.0" S 11° 59' 00.0" E Point
Name ID: 119801 Place ID: 10728

Ostryy Point (USA) 69° 55' 00.0" S 12° 00' 00.0" E Point
Name ID: 129732 Place ID: 10728

A projecting point of the ice shelf that fringes the coast of Queen Maud Land. The feature forms the W side of the entrance to Leningradskiy Bay. Mapped by the SovAE in 1959 and named Mys Ostryy (angular point).

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