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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| Tarnovo Ice Piedmont (BGR) | 62° 44' 50.0" S | 60° 16' 13.0" W | Piedmont |
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Name ID: 105045
Place ID: 14437
Ice piedmont of c. 6sq.km, located next ENE of Barnard Point, Livingston Island. Bounded by the southernmost offshoots of Mount Friesland but to the SSE where it enters Bransfield Strait. UK mapping in 1968. Named after the Bulgarian city of Tarnovo. |
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| Tarnovo Ice Piedmont (USA) | 62° 45' 00.0" S | 60° 14' 00.0" W | Piedmont |
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Name ID: 132483
Place ID: 14437
The ice piedmont located next E of Barnard Point in Eastern Livingston Island. Bounded to the N and W by the southernmost offshoot of Mount Friesland and flowing southeastward into Bransfield Strait. Tarnovo is the name of a city in central northern Bulgaria and the capital of the medieval Second Bulgarian Kingdom. |
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