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
Yermak Point (NZL) 70° 00' 00.0" S 160° 41' 00.0" E Point
Name ID: 114773 Place ID: 16369

Points 16 miles south-east of Belousov Point. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition 1958 in honour of the veteran of the polar fleet, icebreaker "Yermak".

Yermak Point (USA) 70° 06' 00.0" S 160° 41' 00.0" E Point
Name ID: 133924 Place ID: 16369

A coastal point in the W part of Rennick Bay, 25 mi WNW of Znamenskiy Island. Named by the SovAE (1958) after the Soviet icebreaker Yermak.

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