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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| Salient Rock (GBR) | 62° 21' 22.1" S | 59° 20' 56.1" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 111013
Place ID: 12624
outermost rock on SW side of Nelson Strait, N of Kitchen Point, Robert Island, was charted by CAE and named descriptively Roca Saliente (Chile. DNH chart L, 1951); photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956. Salient Rock (APC, 1962, p.27; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). |
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| Salient Rock (USA) | 62° 22' 00.0" S | 59° 20' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 131138
Place ID: 12624
The outermost of numerous rocks fringing the NE end of Robert Island and extending into Nelson Strait, in the South Shetland Islands. The name "Roca Saliente" appears on a Chilean government chart of 1951 and is probably descriptive. |
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| Saliente, roca (ARG) | 62° 21' 00.0" S | 59° 21' 00.0" W | Rock |
| Name ID: 102095 Place ID: 12624 | |||
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