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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Spath Peninsula (GBR) | 64° 20' 30.0" S | 56° 56' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
Name ID: 111311
Place ID: 13777
Ice-free northern peninsula of Snow Hill Island. Named after Dr. Leonard Frank Spath, FRS (1882-1957), eminent UK palaeontologist. (APC, 1995). |
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Spath Peninsula (USA) | 64° 21' 00.0" S | 56° 55' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
Name ID: 131964
Place ID: 13777
Ice-free peninsula, 65. km long, forming the NE extremity of Snow Hill Island. Named by UK-APC in 1995 after Leonard Frank Spath (1882-1957), eminent UK paleontologist and author of a classic paper on ammonites from the James Ross Island area, FIDS Scientific Report No. 3. |
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