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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| Wohlschlag Bay (NZL) | 77° 22' 00.0" S | 166° 25' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 114753
Place ID: 16177
A bay indenting the west side of Ross Island for 31km between Harrison Bluff and Cape Royds. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME13 |
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| Wohlschlag Bay (USA) | 77° 22' 00.0" S | 166° 25' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 133814
Place ID: 16177
Large bay indenting the W side of Ross Island between Harrison Bluff and Cape Royds. Charted by the BrNAE under Scott, 1901-04. Named by the US-ACAN in 1964 for Donald E. Wohlschlag, professor of biology at Stanford University, who outfitted the biology laboratories on the USNS Eltanin and at McMurdo Station, where he worked five summer seasons from 1958-64. |
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