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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| Weddell Abyssal Plain (GEBCO) | 64° 45' 00.0" S | 25° 00' 00.0" W | Plain |
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Name ID: 136616
Place ID: 15829
Named after James Weddell who discovered the Weddell Sea during his Antarctic voyage 1822-24. Shown as Plain in ACUF Gazetteer (June 1987). Latitude 65°30'S - 64°00'S, longitude 40°00'W - 10°00'W. |
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| Weddell Plain (USA) | 65° 00' 00.0" S | 20° 00' 00.0" W | Plain |
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Name ID: 133521
Place ID: 15829
An undersea plain named in association with the Weddell Sea. Name approved 6/87 (ACUF 225). |
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