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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| Thomsen Islands (GBR) | 65° 47' 00.0" S | 66° 16' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 111566
Place ID: 14636
SSW of Speerschneider Point (q.v.), Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of sea-ice specialists grouped in this area and with the name of the point, named after Helge Thomsen (1904-85), Danish meteorologist and Editor, 1946-54, of the annual reports on the state of sea ice in the Arctic, issued by Dansk Meteorologisk Institut, Københaven; sometime Chairman, Commission for Maritime Meteorology, World Meteorological Organization (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). |
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| Thomsen Islands (USA) | 65° 47' 00.0" S | 66° 16' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 132651
Place ID: 14636
Group of small islands lying 2 mi SW of Speerschneider Point, off the W side of Renaud Island in the Biscoe Islands. First accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 for Helge Thomsen, Danish meteorologist, who, for a number of years beginning in 1946, was responsible for editing Dansk Meteorologisk Institut's annual reports on the state of the sea ice in the Arctic. |
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| Thomsen, islotes (ARG) | 65° 47' 00.0" S | 66° 16' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 102297 Place ID: 14636 | |||
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