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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| Wordie Caldera (USA) | 61° 48' 00.0" S | 55° 27' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 136430
Place ID: 17381
The crater of Wordie Seamount. |
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| Wordie Caldera (GEBCO) | 61° 48' 00.0" S | 55° 27' 00.0" E | |
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Name ID: 136623
Place ID: 17381
Named after James Wordie, who was the geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antartica. They possibly drifted over the feature en route to Elephant Island. |
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