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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| Valette Island (GBR) | 60° 45' 00.0" S | 44° 36' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 111731
Place ID: 15277
forming W entrance point of Mill Cove, Laurie Island, was mapped by SNAE in 1903 and named after Luciano H. Valette (1880-1957), Argentine meteoroloist with the first Argentine party on Laurie Island under R. C. Mossman (Mossman Inlet, q.v.), 1904-05 (Bruce and others, chart, [1903a]; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.21). Valette Isle (Bruce and others, chart, [1903b]). Isla Valette (Argentina. IGM map, 1933; Pierrou, 1970, p.706). The island was recharted by DI in 1933. Islas [sic] Valette (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.54). |
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| Valette Island (USA) | 60° 46' 00.0" S | 44° 36' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 133113
Place ID: 15277
Island, 0.2 mi long, lying in the W side of the entrance to Mill Cove on the S side of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted by the ScotNAE, 1902-04, under Bruce, who named it for L.H. Valette, Argentine meteorologist at the Laurie Island station during 1904. |
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| Valette, isla (ARG) | 60° 45' 00.0" S | 44° 36' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 102382 Place ID: 15277 | |||
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