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 Walden (RUS) | 71° 52' 00.0" S | 97° 00' 00.0" W | Cape |
Name ID: 121291 Place ID: 15665 | |||
Cape Walden (USA) | 71° 50' 00.0" S | 96° 53' 00.0" W | Cape |
Name ID: 133371
Place ID: 15665
Ice-covered cape at the NW termination of Evans Peninsula, marking the E entrance of Koether Inlet on Thurston Island. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Squadron VX-6 in January 1960. Named by US-ACAN for Arthur T. Walden, dog driver and leader of the Queen Maud Mountains Supporting Party of the ByrdAE in 1928-30. |
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