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 Yelcho (GBR) | 61° 03' 18.1" S | 55° 21' 57.6" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 112026
Place ID: 16364
NW point of Elephant Island on Sealers Passage (q.v.), was known to nineteenth-century sealers; following survey by J |
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| Cape Yelcho (USA) | 61° 03' 00.0" S | 55° 22' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 133922
Place ID: 16364
The NW extremity of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands. Named by the U.K. Joint Services Expedition, 1970-71, after the Chilean steam tug Yelcho which rescued members of Shackleton's party from nearby Point Wild, August 1916. |
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| Yelcho, cabo (ARG) | 61° 03' 00.0" S | 55° 22' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 102512 Place ID: 16364 | |||
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