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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| Brekilen (NOR) | 70° 10' 00.0" S | 25° 54' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 114942
Place ID: 1821
Bay in the ice shelf on Prinsesse Ragnhild Kyst. Bre=glacier. |
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| Brekilen (RUS) | 70° 10' 00.0" S | 25° 55' 00.0" E | Bay |
| Name ID: 117244 Place ID: 1821 | |||
| Brekilen Bay (USA) | 70° 08' 00.0" S | 25° 48' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 122912
Place ID: 1821
An indentation in the ice shelf about 10 mi SW of Tangekilen Bay, along the coast of Queen Maud Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named Brekilen (the glacier bay). |
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| Haupt Nunataks (AUS) | 66° 34' 53.8" S | 110° 41' 32.9" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1821
Place ID: 6106
Small nunataks 9 km south of Alexander Nunatak, on the Budd Coast, south of the Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after Ensign R.W. Haupt, USN, a member of USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). |
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