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
Orión Point (GBR) 62° 26' 40.2" S 59° 44' 13.7" W Point
Name ID: 135321 Place ID: 16575

Point, W of Spark Point, Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Named Punta Orion by Ecuador, 1990, after their expedition ship, Orión (APC, 2005).

Orion, Punta (ECU) 62° 26' 40.5" S 59° 44' 16.0" W Point
Name ID: 107184 Place ID: 16575

0.5 Km al 260 de Punta Figueroa. Homonimo del primer buque de investigación oceanografica del Ecuador, que realizo estudios de la Antartida.

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