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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| South Spit (GBR) | 62° 13' 28.8" S | 58° 47' 48.7" W | Spit |
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Name ID: 111297
Place ID: 13742
S entrance point of Marian Cove and W point of Barton Peninsula, King George island, was charted by DI, 1934-35, and named descriptively (Nelson and others, chart, 1935h; BA chart 1774, 9.vii.1948; APC, 1955, p.20; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962); further charted from HMS Veryan Bay in 1955. |
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| South Spit (USA) | 62° 14' 00.0" S | 58° 48' 00.0" W | Spit |
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Name ID: 131936
Place ID: 13742
Rocky spit forming the S side of the entrance to Marian Cove, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The descriptive name appears on a British Admiralty chart showing the results of a survey by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1935. |
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