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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| Brunt Basin (USA) | 75° 00' 00.0" S | 25° 00' 00.0" W | Basin |
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Name ID: 123024
Place ID: 1956
A glacially eroded basin of the Brunt Ice Shelf and partially of the Stancomb-Willis Glacier. Named in association with Brunt Ice Shelf. Name proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 271).m Bank |
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| Brunt Basin (GEBCO) | 75° 00' 00.0" S | 25° 00' 00.0" W | Basin |
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Name ID: 136472
Place ID: 1956
Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Name taken from the associated "Brunt Ice Shelf", which was named after David Brunt, Physical Secretary of the British Royal Society. |
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| Burch Peaks (AUS) | 66° 52' 00.1" S | 53° 01' 59.9" E | Peak |
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Name ID: 1956
Place ID: 2058
A group of peaks about 11 km east of Mount Torckler, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after W M Burch, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1961. |
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