Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Condell, Islotes (CHL) | 66° 32' 00.0" S | 66° 58' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105354
Place ID: 10970
El nombre original de los islotes fue grupo Malleco, puesto durante la Expedición Antártica Chilena de 1947. En 1962 se empezó a usar el nombre actual, puesto por el Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada de Chile, en honor al capitán de corbeta Carlos Condell de la Armada de Chile, quien tuviera una destacada participación en la Guerra del Pacífico y fuera héroe del Combate de Punta Gruesa el 21 de mayo de 1879. Grupo de islotes y rocas centrados a 13 millas al WNW del cabo Rey de la costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Pauling Islands (GBR) | 66° 32' 00.0" S | 66° 58' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110528
Place ID: 10970
SE of Barcroft Islands, Crystal Sound, Loubet Coast, were roughly mapped from the air by BGLE in 1935-36; called Grupo Malleco by CAE, 1947, probably after a member of the expedition (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947); surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Detaille Island" in September 1958; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Dr Linus Carl Pauling (b. 1901), American chemist and originator of a theory of the structure of ice, c. 1935; Nobel Laureate in chemistry, 1954, and for peace, 1962; Research Professor, Stanford University, Cal., from 1974 (APC, 1960, p.6; BA chart 3571, 14.viii.1961). Islotes Condell, so called by CAE after Capt. Carlos Condell, of the Chilean Navy, who fought in the battle of Punta Gruesa, 21 May 1879 (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.184; IHA, 1974, p.82). |
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| Pauling Islands (USA) | 66° 32' 00.0" S | 66° 58' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 129917
Place ID: 10970
A separate group of islands lying 3 mi SE of Barcroft Islands, in Crystal Sound. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1958-59). Named by UK-APC for Linus C. Pauling, American chemist; originator of a theory of the structure of ice, in about 1935. |
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| Pauling, islotes (ARG) | 66° 32' 00.0" S | 66° 58' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 101802 Place ID: 10970 | |||
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