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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Mraka Sound (BGR) | 65° 31' 40.0" S | 65° 42' 00.0" W | Sound |
Name ID: 137771
Place ID: 19406
The roughly rectangular water body extending 5 km in SE-NW direction and 4.2 km in SW-NE direction in Biscoe Islands. Bounded by Renaud Island on the S, Pickwick Island on the N and Winkle Island on the NE. British mapping in 1971. Named after the historical region of Mraka in Western Bulgaria. |
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