Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Funes, cabo (ARG) | 62° 15' 00.0" S | 58° 37' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 100955 Place ID: 14118 | |||
| Ibarra, Cabo (CHL) | 62° 15' 12.0" S | 58° 39' 04.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 134958
Place ID: 14118
El nombre corresponde al apellido de Bautista Ibarra Carvajal, mayor 1º de la escampavía "Yelcho" de la Armada de Chile, que rescató a los náufragos de la Expedición Británica de Sir Ernest Schackleton, en 1916. Cabo ubicado a aproximadamente 6,4 millas al WSW de la punta Demay, en la costa S de la isla Rey Jorge, islas Shetland del Sur. |
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| Stranger Point (RUS) | 62° 16' 00.0" S | 58° 36' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 120819 Place ID: 14118 | |||
| Stranger Point (GBR) | 62° 15' 42.3" S | 58° 37' 03.2" W | Point |
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Name ID: 111428
Place ID: 14118
S-most point of King George Island, SE of Potter Cove, was charted by DI, 1934-35; photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS, 1957-59; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers grouped in this area, named after the sealing ship Stranger (Capt. Joseph Adams) from Boston, Mass., which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21, in company with O'Cain (O'Cain Point, q.v.), and operated from Potter Cove (APC, 1960, p.7; BA chart 1774, 14.ix.1962). Punta Pingüinera [=penguin point] (Araya and Hervé, 1966, p.15 and map p.20). Mys Streyndzher (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 175). Cabo Funes, so called by AAE after the Argentine patriot Deán G. Funes (fl. 1810) (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter F). |
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| Stranger Point (USA) | 62° 16' 00.0" S | 58° 37' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 132243
Place ID: 14118
Point forming the southernmost tip of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the sealer Stranger (Capt. Joseph Adams) from Boston, MA, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 in company with the O'Cain, operating from nearby Potter Cove. |
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