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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| Tangekilen (NOR) | 70° 00' 00.0" S | 26° 30' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 116168
Place ID: 14417
Bay on the W side of Kiletangen on Prinsesse Ragnhild Kyst. T.=the tongue bay. |
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| Tangekilen (RUS) | 70° 00' 00.0" S | 26° 15' 00.0" E | Bay |
| Name ID: 120897 Place ID: 14417 | |||
| Tangekilen Bay (USA) | 69° 58' 00.0" S | 26° 20' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 132466
Place ID: 14417
An indentation of the ice shelf northward of the Sor Rondane Mountains and 42 mi ENE of Breid Bay, along the coast of Queen Maud Land. First mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Tangekilen (the tongue bay) after the large ice tongue just eastward. |
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