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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Brooks, cabo (ARG) | 73° 36' 00.0" S | 60° 46' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 100356 Place ID: 1900 | |||
| Brooks, Cabo (CHL) | 73° 36' 00.0" S | 60° 46' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 105244
Place ID: 1900
Fue descubierto y aerofotografiado en diciembre de 1940 por miembros del USAS. Durante 1947, el cabo fue aerofotografiado por miembros del RARE, quienes, en conjunto con el FIDS, lo cartografiaron desde tierra. El nombre se lo puso el FIDS y corresponde al apellido de Charles E.P. Brooks, meteorólogo inglés de la plana mayor de la Oficina Meteorológica, 1907-1949. Cabo que forma el lado S de la entrada a la ensenada New Bedford, costa occidental de la península Tierra de O'Higgins. |
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| Cape Brooks (RUS) | 73° 35' 00.0" S | 60° 50' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 117256 Place ID: 1900 | |||
| Cape Brooks (GBR) | 73° 37' 00.0" S | 60° 38' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 107973
Place ID: 1900
S entrance point of New Bedford Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was probably first seen, and photographed from the air, by USAS on 30 December 1940; photographed from the air by RARE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic meteorologists grouped in this area, named after Dr Charles Ernest Pelham Brooks (1888-1957), English meteorologist; on the staff of the Meteorological Office, 1907-48; Secretary, Royal Meteorological Society, 1927-31, and Vice-President, 1932-33; author of The climate and weather of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia (London, 1920) (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1955, p.6; DOS 601 sheet W 73 60, 1957; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969). Cabo Brooks (Argentina. MM chart 121, 1957; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.56; (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9)). Mys Bruks (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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| Cape Brooks (USA) | 73° 36' 00.0" S | 60° 46' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 122975
Place ID: 1900
Cape marked by steep, conspicuous walls which rise to 465 m, forming the S side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet, on the E coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the USAS. During 1947 the cape was photographed from the air by members of the RARE, who in conjunction with the FIDS charted it from the ground. Named by the FIDS for Charles E.P. Brooks, English meteorologist on the staff of the Meteorological Office, 1907-49. |
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| Dallwitz Nunatak (AUS) | 66° 57' 00.0" S | 51° 30' 00.0" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1900
Place ID: 3278
A small nunatak in Enderby Land composed of strongly banded metasedimentary rocks overlain by more massive felsic gneiss. There is a cliff face on the south side. Named after the (then) Bureau of Mineral Resources geologist W. B. Dallwitz who discovered the unusual metamorphic mineral assemblage. |
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