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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| Cape Vostok (GBR) | 69° 08' 00.0" S | 72° 09' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 111794
Place ID: 15604
NE entrance point of Lazarev Bay, NW Alexander Island, was sighted by RAE in January 1821 and by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909; photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; named after the RAE sloop Vostok (Capt. T.T. Bellingshausen, Bellingshausen Sea, q.v.), in association with Mirnyy Peak (q.v.) ([in 69° 07'S 72°10'W] APC, 1961, p.4; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from US LANDSAT imagery of February 1975] BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1986, p.4). Mys Vostok (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). |
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| Cape Vostok (USA) | 69° 07' 00.0" S | 72° 10' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 133325
Place ID: 15604
Rocky mass which forms the W extremity of the Havre Mountains and the NW extremity of Alexander Island. First seen by the Russian expedition of 1821 under Bellingshausen. Mapped in detail from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC for the sloop Vostok, commanded by Bellingshausen. |
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| Vostok, cabo (ARG) | 69° 08' 00.0" S | 72° 19' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 102436 Place ID: 15604 | |||
| Vostok, mys (RUS) | 69° 07' 00.0" S | 72° 10' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 121261 Place ID: 15604 | |||
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