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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| Berkner Bank (USA) | 75° 00' 00.0" S | 48° 00' 00.0" W | Bank |
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Name ID: 122447
Place ID: 1225
A bank in the Weddell Sea named for Lloyd V. Berkner, an engineer who sailed with Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition to Antarctica, 1928-1930. Name approved 4/73 (ACUF 144). |
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| Berkner Bank (GEBCO) | 75° 39' 00.0" S | 44° 30' 00.0" W | Bank |
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Name ID: 136467
Place ID: 1225
Accredited by: BGN (Jun. 1973). Named after the nearby Berkner Island. Lloyd V Berkner, American physicist, was engineer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Sources in which the name was cited are: 1) "Surface Features on Sand Grains from Antarctic Continental Shelf and Deep-Sea Cores" by Rex and Margolis in Antarctic Journal, Sept./Oct. 1969, p. 168. 2) "Possible Interglacial Dune Sands in 300 Meters Water Depth in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica" by Rex, Margolis and Murray in Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 81 (11/1970), p. 3465-3472. |
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| Lake Gillieson (AUS) | 69° 25' 06.9" S | 76° 07' 38.3" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1225
Place ID: 5330
A lake located on the eastern side of Stornes Peninsula and lying about 1.2 km north-east of Blundell Peak in the Larsemann Hills.Named after David Gillieson, Limnologist, University of New South Wales, who was a member of the 1987 Law Base Summer Field Party. |
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