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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| Bellinshausen Küste (RUS) | 68° 47' 00.0" S | 90° 30' 00.0" W | |
| Name ID: 117041 Place ID: 1136 | |||
| Grierson Island (AUS) | 66° 00' 58.0" S | 111° 04' 05.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1136
Place ID: 5681
One of the Balaena Islands, off the Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, about 2 km WSW of Thompson Island. The Balaena Islands were delineated from air photographs taken on 2 February 1947 by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The islands were probably sketched during an ice reconnaissance flight from the Factory Ship Balaena ten days after the Highjump photography and thought to be peaks. Named after John Grierson, Flight Commodore on the Balaena. |
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| Von Bellingshausenkysten (NOR) | 68° 49' 12.0" S | 90° 28' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 114867
Place ID: 1136
After Commander Thaddeus von Bellingshausen, leader of the first Russian Antarctic expedition 1819-21, who discovered Peter I Øy in 1921. See also Bellingshausenhavet. |
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