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
Beta Island (GBR) 64° 19' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 107786 Place ID: 1281

one of the Melchior Islands (q.v.), Dallmann Bay, was charted by DI in 1927 and named after the second letter in the Greek alphabet, in association with the names of other islands in this group (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.5); recharted by AAE in 1942, 1943 and 1948. Isla Beta (Chile. DNH chart 510, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.45). Isla Rodeada [=island surrounded (by other islands)] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.278; Pierrou, 1970, p.630).

Beta Island (USA) 64° 19' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 122490 Place ID: 1281

Small island which lies immediately N of Kappa Island and close SW of Alpha Island in the Melchior Islands, Palmer Archipelago. The name, derived from the second letter of the Greek alphabet, was probably given by DI personnel who roughly surveyed the island in 1927. The island was surveyed by Argentine expeditions in 1942, 1943 and 1948.

Beta, Isla (CHL) 64° 19' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 105181 Place ID: 1281

El nombre deriva de la segunda letra del alfabeto griego y probablemente le fue dado por el personal de la Investigación Discovery de 1926-1927, al mando del Dr. Stanley Kemp, que hizo un ligero levantamiento de la isla en 1927. En las cartas argentinas figura como isla Rodeada. Pequeña isla que se ubica al N de la isla Kappa del archipiélago Melchior, archipiélago de Palmer.

Lagernoye Lake (AUS) 67° 40' 00.1" S 45° 51' 00.0" E Water body
Name ID: 1281 Place ID: 8006

A small lake, just south of the camp of Molodezhnaya Station in Enderby Land. This lake was named Ozero Lagernoye (Camp Lake) by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition.

Rodeada, isla (ARG) 64° 19' 00.0" S 63° 00' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 102029 Place ID: 1281

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