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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| The Pointers (GBR) | 62° 35' 21.1" S | 61° 19' 15.3" W | |
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Name ID: 110663
Place ID: 11401
submerged rocks between Eddystone Rock and Start Point, Livingston Island, were known to the nineteenth-century sealers as a navigational mark and hazard near the entrance to New Plymouth, and so named descriptively (Fildes, 1821b; APC, 1962, p.25; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Pointers (BA, 1916, p.393). The rocks were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. |
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| The Pointers (USA) | 62° 36' 00.0" S | 61° 19' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 130218
Place ID: 11401
Two rocks lying NW of Rugged Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name was applied by sealers in the area in the 1820s. |
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