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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| Jean Rostand, Island (RUS) | 66° 40' 00.0" S | 140° 01' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 118630 Place ID: 12394 | |||
| Jean-Rostand, Île (FRA) | 66° 40' 07.0" S | 140° 01' 08.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 107324
Place ID: 12394
Importante île rocheuse située au sud-est de l'île des Pétrels, dans la partie centrale de l'archipel de Pointe-Géologie ; nom donné en l'honneur du célèbre biologiste français Jean Rostand (1894-1977). |
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| Rostand Island (USA) | 66° 40' 00.0" S | 140° 01' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 130969
Place ID: 12394
Rocky island 0.2 mi long, 0.1 mi SE of Petrel Island in the Geologie Archipelago. Charted in 1951 by the FrAE and named by them for Jean Rostand, noted French biologist. |
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