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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| Aitken Nunatak (USA) | 85° 42' 00.0" S | 173° 49' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 121638
Place ID: 138
A small rock nunatak, 2,785 m, standing 3 mi SW of Mount Bumstead in the Grosvenor Mountains. Named by US-ACAN for William M. Aitken, USARP aurora scientist at South Pole Station, 1962. |
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| Stibbs Bay (AUS) | 67° 32' 02.8" S | 61° 27' 34.9" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 138
Place ID: 15256
A bay about 7 km wide just east of the Jelbart Glacier. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Utstikkarbukta (The Projecting Bay). Renamed after R.K. Stibbs, Officer-in-Charge ANARE Macquarie Island in 1951. |
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