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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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| Biscoe Point (GBR) | 64° 49' 00.0" S | 63° 49' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 107812
Place ID: 1365
SE entrance point of Biscoe Bay, Anvers Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and called Presqu'île de Biscoe (Gourdon, 1908, end map); following survey by FIDS from "Arthur Harbour" in 1955, named Biscoe Point (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Punta Biscoe (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.47). The point was designated SSS1 No. 20 under the Antarctic Treaty (SPRI, 1986, p.242-43). |
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| Biscoe Point (USA) | 64° 49' 00.0" S | 63° 49' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 122555
Place ID: 1365
Rocky point forming the SE side of Biscoe Bay, immediately N of Access Point on the S side of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The FrAE under Charcot roughly surveyed the SW coast of Anvers Island in 1904. They gave the name "Presqu'ile de Biscoe" to a small peninsula on the SE side of Biscoe Bay, honoring John Biscoe who may have landed in the vicinity in 1832. When the coast was resurveyed by the FIDS in 1955, two rocky points were found in approximately that location; the name Biscoe Point has been applied to the more prominent of the two. |
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| Biscoe, Punta (CHL) | 64° 49' 00.0" S | 63° 47' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 105194
Place ID: 1365
Su denominación le fue aplicada por extensión del nombre de la vecina bahía Biscoe y aparece en la cartografía chilena desde 1962. Punta situada a 3,2 millas al NW del cabo Lancaster, extremo S de la isla Anvers, sirviendo de límite SE a la bahía Biscoe, en la costa SW de la misma isla, archipiélago de Palmer. |
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| Mount Marvel (AUS) | 78° 45' 00.0" S | 159° 22' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1365
Place ID: 9093
A mountain, 1,540 m high, standing 11 km south of Escalade Peak near the head of Mulcock Glacier. Plotted from US Navy air photographs. Named by USACAN after Cmdr. R. Marvel, USN, officer-in-charge of Detachment Alpha at McMurdo in 1963. |
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