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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| Verdi Inlet (RUS) | 71° 30' 00.0" S | 75° 00' 00.0" W | Inlet |
| Name ID: 121167 Place ID: 15396 | |||
| Verdi Inlet (GBR) | 71° 38' 00.0" S | 74° 33' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 111757
Place ID: 15396
N side of Beethoven Peninsula, SW Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; in association with the names of other composers in this area, named after Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian opera composer ([in 71°30'S 75°00'W] APC, 1961, p.4); USHO chart V30-SP6, 1962; DOS 710 sheet 14, 1963; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1973] BAS 250P sheet SR 17-18/15, 16, 1-DOS 1974; APC, 1977, p.34). Ledyanoy Bukhta Verdi (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). |
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| Verdi Inlet (USA) | 71° 36' 00.0" S | 74° 30' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 133195
Place ID: 15396
An ice-filled inlet between Pesce Peninsula and Harris Peninsula, on the N side of Beethoven Peninsula, Alexander Island. Observed from the air and first roughly mapped by the RARE, 1947-48. Remapped from the RARE air photos by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by UK-APC after Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian opera composer. |
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