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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| Tashtego Point (GBR) | 65° 44' 00.0" S | 62° 08' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 111510
Place ID: 14441
NW entrance point of Scar Inlet, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in November 1947; in association with the names of characters from Moby Dick or the whale in this area, named after Tashtego, the harpooner in Pequod (APC, 1958, p.7; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). |
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| Tashtego Point (USA) | 65° 44' 00.0" S | 62° 09' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 132488
Place ID: 14441
Rocky point marking the E end of the ridge at the S side of Stubb Glacier, on the E coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the FIDS in 1947. Named by the UK-APC after Stubbs harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. |
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| Tashtego, punta (ARG) | 65° 44' 00.0" S | 62° 08' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 102275 Place ID: 14441 | |||
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