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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| Breakwater Island (GBR) | 64° 48' 00.0" S | 63° 14' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 107937
Place ID: 1800
off NE coast of Wiencke Island, Danco Coast, was called in error Islote Bob (Bob Island, q.v.) by AAE (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949); following survey by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944, named Breakwater Islet (BA chart 3213, 6.x.1950; APC, 1955, p.6). Islote Roberto (Argentina. MM 1953, p.274). Breakwater Island (APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Islote Breakwater (Chile. DNH chart 1501, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.55). |
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| Breakwater Island (USA) | 64° 47' 00.0" S | 63° 13' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 122896
Place ID: 1800
Small island in the Palmer Archipelago with a line of rocks extending in a SW arc from it, lying opposite Nipple Peak, 0.3 mi off the E side of Wiencke Island. The descriptive name was given by the FIDS in 1944. |
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| Breakwater, Islote (CHL) | 64° 48' 00.0" S | 63° 14' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 105234
Place ID: 1800
Descubierto en 1944 por la Operación Tabarín del FIDS de 1943-1945, al mando del capitán de corbeta J.W.S. Marr, RNVN, recibiendo este nombre descriptivo (rompeolas). Este islote, muy característico y que semeja un cubo de piedra de 33 metros de elevación, emerge a 5,3 millas al S del cabo Astrup y muy próximo a la costa oriental de la isla Wiencke, archipiélago de Palmer. |
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| Knight Nunatak (AUS) | 69° 23' 14.1" S | 158° 51' 37.4" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1800
Place ID: 7658
A nunatak about 9 km SSE of Cape Kinsey in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after Yeoman First Class M.W. Knight, USN, who served with the Operations Division of the US Naval Support Force, Antarctica, at Washington, Christchurch and McMurdo station, 1967-70. |
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| Roberto, islote (ARG) | 64° 56' 00.0" S | 63° 26' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 102012 Place ID: 1800 | |||
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