Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Aramburu, bahía (ARG) | 63° 42' 00.0" S | 58° 00' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 100109
Place ID: 1758
Entre las caletas Azimut y Botánica, en la península Trinidad. El topónimo recuerda al Teniente General Pedro E. Aramburu, presidente provisional de la República Argentina durante el período 1956-1958. SHN carta H-713. |
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| Brandy Bay (GBR) | 63° 50' 00.0" S | 57° 58' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 107927
Place ID: 1758
between San Carlos Point (q.v.) and Bibby Point, James Ross Island, was probably first sighted by SwAE in October 1903 (Nordenskj"ld and others, 1905, map facing p.316); surveyed by FIDS in December 1945; named following a subsequent visit by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in August 1952, when there was discussion as to whether brandy should be used as treatment for a dog bite (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Bah |
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| Brandy Bay (USA) | 63° 50' 00.0" S | 57° 59' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 122867
Place ID: 1758
A bay 2 mi wide on the NW coast of James Ross Island, entered W of Bibby Point. Probably first seen by Nordenskjold in 1903. Surveyed by FIDS in 1945. During a subsequent visit to this bay by a FIDS party in 1952, there was a discussion as to whether medicinal brandy should be used as treatment for a dog bite. The name arose naturally from this incident. |
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| Doggers Nunataks (AUS) | 67° 46' 00.1" S | 54° 52' 00.1" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1758
Place ID: 3731
A group of peaks about 28 km east of Knuckey Peaks. Photographed in October 1956, by ANARE aircraft. Surveyed in December, 1958, by GA Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey fromn Amundsen Bay to Mawson. Named after the members of the 1958 ANARE dog-sledge party who were always referred to at Mawson as the "Doggers". |
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