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
Wordie Seamount (USA) 61° 48' 00.0" S 55° 27' 00.0" W
Name ID: 136431 Place ID: 18301

A seamount located in Bransfield Strait; named for James Wordie, geologist on Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica. Name approved 8/03 (ACUF 298).

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