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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| Penn Tarn (NZL) | 77° 35' 00.0" S | 163° 06' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 114097
Place ID: 16739
Named after an American university, University of Pennsylvania. |
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| Penn Tarn (USA) | 77° 35' 00.0" S | 163° 06' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 130000
Place ID: 16739
A tarn 0.1 mi N of Princeton Tarn in the SW part of Tarn Valley, Victoria Land. The feature is one of four tarns in the valley named by the VUWAE, 1965-66, after American universities; Penn is a colloquial form of reference to the University of Pennsylvania. |
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