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
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).

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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