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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Aka-kabe (JPN) | 71° 36' 00.0" S | 35° 35' 00.0" E | |
Name ID: 112279
Place ID: 143
A west and north facing semicircular bluff of Mont Derom in the southern part of Yamato Sanmyaku. Surveyed by JARE in 1960, and named Aka-kabe (red wall). |
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Shallow Bay (AUS) | 67° 49' 23.5" S | 67° 30' 15.0" E | Bay |
Name ID: 143
Place ID: 13081
A bay about 9 km wide, formed by a recession of limited extent in the ice cliffs, just west of Point Williams, on the coast of Mac.Robertson Land. Discovered on 12 February, 1931, by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson, who so named it because it formed only a shallow indentation in the coastline. |
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