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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| Shull Rocks (GBR) | 66° 27' 00.0" S | 66° 40' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 111171
Place ID: 13229
in Crystal Sound, Loubet Coast, E of Barcroft Islands, were photographed from the air by RARE, 1947-48, and by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from"Detaille Island", 1958-59; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Clifford Glenwood Shull (b.1915), American physicist who used neutron diffraction to determine the position of the hydrogen atoms in ice (APC, 1960, p.7; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961). |
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| Shull Rocks (USA) | 66° 27' 00.0" S | 66° 40' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 131572
Place ID: 13229
A chain of low snow-covered rocks and one small island, lying in Crystal Sound about 10 mi NW of Cape Rey, Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1958-59). Named by UK-APC for Clifford G. Shull, American physicist who used neutron diffraction to determine the position of the hydrogen atoms in ice. |
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| Shull, islotes (ARG) | 66° 27' 00.0" S | 66° 41' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 102171 Place ID: 13229 | |||
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