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
Bednarz Cove (USA) 66° 21' 00.0" S 110° 32' 00.0" E Cove
Name ID: 122348 Place ID: 1087

Cove in the S side of Mitchell Peninsula on Budd Coast. First mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. Named by the US-ACAN for Chief Electronics Technician Donald F. Bednarz, USN, a member of the Wilkes Station party of 1958.

Borrello Island (AUS) 66° 19' 05.2" S 110° 23' 00.0" E Island
Name ID: 1087 Place ID: 1629

A small island off the western side of Hollin Island, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after S R Borrello, magnetician at Wilkes in 1958.  

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