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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| Wegener Canyon (USA) | 70° 45' 00.0" S | 14° 00' 00.0" W | Canyon |
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Name ID: 133533
Place ID: 15845
An undersea canyon named for Alfred Wegener. Name proposed by Hans Werner Schenke, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 7/89 (ACUF 233). |
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| Wegener Canyon (GEBCO) | 70° 45' 00.0" S | 14° 00' 00.0" W | Canyon |
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Name ID: 136617
Place ID: 15845
Proposer: H. W. Schenke, AWI, Germany, 1989. Discoverer: R/V Polarstern, 1985. Accredited by: SCGN (Jun. 1991). Alfred Wegener (1930) was a German polar scientist. |
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