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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| Vollmer Island (NZL) | 76° 43' 59.9" S | 150° 30' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 140102
Place ID: 15574
An ice-covered island approximately 20km east to west lying along the edge of Sulzberger Ice Shelf, 12.9km northwest of Cronenwett Island. |
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| Vollmer Island (USA) | 76° 44' 00.0" S | 150° 30' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 133306
Place ID: 15574
An ice-covered island 11 mi long, lying along the edge of Sulzberger Ice Shelf, 7 mi NW of Cronenwett Island. It appears that this feature was first observed and roughly mapped from aerial photographs taken by the ByrdAE, 1928-30. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. T.H. Vollmer, USN, engineering officer aboard USS Glacier along this coast, 1961-62. |
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