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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| Siddins Point (GBR) | 62° 32' 41.8" S | 60° 26' 05.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 111176
Place ID: 13247
S side of Hero Bay, N Livingston Island, was charted by DI, 1933-34; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers, named after Capt. Richard Siddins, Master of the Australian sealing ship Lynx (Lynx Rocks, q.v.) (APC, 1959(23); BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962; 1776, 19.vii. 1968). |
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| Siddins Point (USA) | 62° 33' 00.0" S | 60° 26' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 131585
Place ID: 13247
Point projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the N coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 for Capt. Richard Siddins, Master of the Australian sealer Lynx of Sydney, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 and 1821-22. |
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| Siddons Point (RUS) | 62° 33' 00.0" S | 60° 27' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 120577 Place ID: 13247 | |||
| Siddons, punta (ARG) | 62° 33' 00.0" S | 60° 26' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 102175 Place ID: 13247 | |||
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