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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| Seabee Hook (NZL) | 72° 19' 00.0" S | 170° 13' 00.0" E | Spit |
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Name ID: 114341
Place ID: 12936
A small peninsula jutting out on the western side of Cape Hallett, into Moubray Bay, Victoria Land. Discovered by a US Navy reconnaissance survey party in 1956. Named for the Seabee construction units which built the American IGY bases in Antarctica. |
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| Seabee Hook (USA) | 72° 19' 00.0" S | 170° 13' 00.0" E | Spit |
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Name ID: 131367
Place ID: 12936
Low, recurved spit composed of coarse volcanic ash which projects about 0.5 mi W from the high rocky ridge forming Cape Hallett, along the coast of Victoria Land. Surveyed in January 1956 by members of USN OpDFrz I aboard the icebreaker USS the Edisto which investigated and surveyed this area for possible use as a base site for International Geophysical Year operations. Seabee is a phonetic spelling for "construction battalion" and now refers to individual or collective members of naval construction engineer units. |
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