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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| Hovdeholmen, Ytre (NOR) | 69° 15' 00.0" S | 39° 25' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 116363 Place ID: 16393 | |||
| Ytrehovdeholmen (RUS) | 69° 12' 00.0" S | 39° 28' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 121457 Place ID: 16393 | |||
| Ytrehovdeholmen Island (USA) | 69° 13' 00.0" S | 39° 28' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 133943
Place ID: 16393
The largest of four islands in a cluster. It lies 4 mi W of Langhovde Hills in the E part of Lutzow-Holm Bay. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Ytrehovdeholmen (the outer knoll island) because of its position among the islands adjacent to Langhovde Hills. |
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