Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Orca Seamount (USA) | 62° 26' 00.0" S | 58° 24' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 133260
Place ID: 15498
A seamount in the Bransfield Strait; named after the cetacean Orcinus orca ("Killer Whale"), often sighted in these waters. Name approved 2/2000 (ACUF 281). The variant name of Viehoff Seamount (approved in 6/95 ACUF 263) was named for Dr. Thomas Viehoff, a remote sensing specialist in marine sciences. Name proposed by Dr. G.B. Udintsev, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry (VIG). |
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| Orca Seamount (GEBCO) | 62° 26' 00.0" S | 58° 24' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 136566
Place ID: 15498
Proposer: O. Gonzalez-Ferran, Chile, 1999. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1999). Named after the cetacean Orcinus orca ("Killer Whale"), often sighted in these waters. First named by O. Gonzalez-Ferran, in a 1987 Cambridge University Symposium. Multibeam plots indicates that the feature is spectacularly cratered, hence the term "caldera". |
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