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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Bothy Lake (GBR) 60° 43' 32.0" S 45° 39' 42.0" W Water body
Name ID: 107882 Place ID: 1643

at head of Cummings Cove (q.v.), Signy Island, following freshwater biological studies by BAS from 1970, was so named in reference to the refuge hut on the cove (APC, 1982, p.3; Ellis-Evans, 1983, Fig. 1, p.79).

Bothy Lake (USA) 60° 44' 00.0" S 45° 40' 00.0" W Water body
Name ID: 122766 Place ID: 1643

A small lake at the head of Cummings Cove, Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. So named by the UK-APC, 1981, in reference to the BAS refuge hut SW of the lake.

Mount Merrick (AUS) 67° 42' 00.0" S 49° 17' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 1643 Place ID: 9466

One of the Raggatt Mountains, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956 and 1957. Altitude derived from 1:250,000 map Simpson Peak, Sheet SQ38-39/15, Map 104 in the map catalogue.

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