Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Shaw Nunatak (GBR) | 69° 33' 00.0" S | 71° 18' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 111140
Place ID: 13111
rising to c. 500m in Nichols Snowfield, N Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS from 1968, was named after Colin Shaw (1944-78), BAS surveyor who worked in Alexander Island, 1975-76 (APC, 1980, p.5). |
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| Shaw Nunatak (USA) | 69° 33' 00.0" S | 71° 12' 00.0" W | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 131489
Place ID: 13111
Nunatak rising to 500 m in Nichols Snowfield, northern Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by RARE, 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of FIDS, 1960. Named by UK-APC in 1977 after Colin Shaw (1944-78), BAS surveyor who worked in Alexander Island, 1975-76. |
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