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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| Breid Bay (USA) | 70° 15' 00.0" S | 24° 15' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 122905
Place ID: 1813
A bay about 20 mi wide, irregularly indenting, for as much as 12 mi, the ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land. This feature was charted and descriptively named "Breidvika" (broad bay) by H.E. Hansen, as a result of aerial photographs made on Feb. 6, 1937 by the Lars Christensen Expedition of 1936-37. |
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| Breidvika (RUS) | 70° 15' 00.0" S | 24° 15' 00.0" E | Bay |
| Name ID: 117242 Place ID: 1813 | |||
| Breivika (NOR) | 70° 15' 00.0" S | 24° 05' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 114941
Place ID: 1813
Bay in the ice shelf on Prinsesse Ragnhild Kyst. Brei=broad. |
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| Fischer Nunatak (AUS) | 67° 43' 48.4" S | 63° 03' 14.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1813
Place ID: 4626
A nunatak about 4 km south of Mt. Henderson in Mac.Robertson land. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Sørnuten (The South Peak). This feature was the site of a remote weather station established by ANARE in 1955. Renamed by ANARE after H J L Fischer, Cook at Mawson in 1958. |
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