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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| Bothy Bay (GBR) | 62° 10' 18.9" S | 58° 58' 34.4" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 107881
Place ID: 1642
NW coast of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, following geological work by BAS, 1975-76, was named from the crude stone hut, evidently built by nineteenth-century sealers, on the bay (APC, 1980, p.3). Dos Lobos Marinhos (Brazil. Península Fildes map, 1984 ). |
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| Bothy Bay (USA) | 62° 10' 00.0" S | 58° 58' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 122765
Place ID: 1642
A small bay on the NW side of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. The entrance is 0.7 mi SE of Square End Island and the bay is backed by a wide beach, with low cliffs on the NE and SW sides. The name, applied by UK-APC in 1977, is suggested by a crude stone hut (bothy), evidently built by nineteenth-century sealers, on the shore of the bay. |
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| Mount Mather (AUS) | 73° 28' 08.3" S | 61° 03' 46.9" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1642
Place ID: 9130
A peak 6 km west of western extremity of Mt Menzies massif in the Prince Charles Mountains. First seen by Flying Officer J. Seaton from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Mapped by the ANARE southern seismic party, 1957-58, led by K.B. Mather, after whom it was named. |
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