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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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| Bolsón Cove (USA) | 65° 09' 00.0" S | 63° 05' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 122686
Place ID: 1547
Cove at the head of Flandres Bay, lying immediately E of Etienne Fjord, along the W coast of Graham Land. First charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1954 and is probably descriptive; "bolson" is Spanish for a large purse. |
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| Bolsón, bahía (ARG) | 65° 09' 00.0" S | 63° 05' 00.0" W | Cove |
| Name ID: 100300 Place ID: 1547 | |||
| Cruz, Bahía (CHL) | 65° 09' 00.0" S | 63° 05' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 134498
Place ID: 1547
El nombre fue puesto en 1962 por el Instituto Hidrográfico de la Armada de Chile en honor al capitán de navío Gustavo Cruz Cáceres, comodoro de la Expedición Antártica Chilena de 1957-1958. Bahía de aproximadamente 1 milla de ancho, por 1,5 de saco hacia el SSW, que se abre entre bahía Etienne y bahía Pelletan, en el fondo del saco y sobre la costa S de bahía Flandres, costa occidental de la península de Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Mount Torckler (AUS) | 66° 52' 00.1" S | 52° 43' 59.9" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1547
Place ID: 14820
A mountain in Enderby Land about 5 km south-east of Mount Smethurst. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after R.M. Torckler, radio officer at Wilkes in 1961. |
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| Schulze Cove (GBR) | 65° 09' 00.0" S | 63° 06' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 111082
Place ID: 1547
S arm of Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05 (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5); further charted by AAE, 1951-52, and called descriptively Bahía Bolsón [=purse bay] (Argentina. MM chart A-2-A, 1954; Pierrou, 1970, p.208); following survey by FIDS from Shackleton in February 1956 and air photography by FIDASE, 1956-57, and in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Joseph Heinrich Schulze (1687-1744), German anatomist who, in 1725, discovered that the darkening of silver salts by light could be applied to the making of transient images, an important step towards the invention of photography (APC, 1960, p.7). Bahía Cruz, so called by CAE after Capt. Gustavo Cruz Cáceres, of the Chilean Navy, commanding CAE, 1957-58 (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.88). Bolsón Cove (USBGN, 1965, p.93). |
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