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
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).

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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