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
Simbad, roca (ARG) 62° 09' 00.0" S 59° 02' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 102182 Place ID: 13312

Sinbad Rock (RUS) 62° 09' 00.0" S 59° 01' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 120594 Place ID: 13312

Sinbad Rock (GBR) 62° 09' 11.5" S 59° 02' 21.2" W Rock
Name ID: 111195 Place ID: 13312

rising 3m above sea level WNW of Square End Island, Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, was charted and named by DI in 1935 (Nelson and others, chart, 1935b; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.19; BA chart 1776, 19.vii.1968). Roca Simbad [sic] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.200; Pierrou, 1970, p.661). Skaly Sinbad (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.175). Roca Sinbad (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.261).

Sinbad Rock (USA) 62° 10' 00.0" S 59° 02' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 131637 Place ID: 13312

Low rock lying 1.25 mi WNW of Square End Island, off the W end of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The rock was charted in 1935 by DI personnel on the Discovery II but the name appears to be first used on a 1948 Admiralty chart based upon this survey.

Sinbad, Roca (CHL) 62° 10' 00.0" S 59° 01' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 106274 Place ID: 13312

La roca fue cartografiada por el personal de la Discovery II, pero el nombre apareciĆ³ por primera vez en una carta del Almirantazgo en 1948. Es una roca baja ubicada a 17 cables al WNW de la isla Cuadra y retirada de la costa NW de la isla Rey Jorge, en las Shetland del Sur. Es una roca aislada de 3 mts. de altura sobre la que rompe con fuerza la mar.

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