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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| Potaka Inlet (RUS) | 72° 08' 00.0" S | 99° 10' 00.0" W | Inlet |
| Name ID: 120048 Place ID: 11517 | |||
| Potaka Inlet (USA) | 72° 02' 00.0" S | 99° 23' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 130297
Place ID: 11517
Narrow ice-filled inlet about 8 mi long, indenting the N side of Thurston Island immediately E of Starr Peninsula. First delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Dr. Louis H. Potaka, medical officer with the ByrdAE, 1933-35. |
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