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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| Cacapon Inlet (AUS) | 66° 10' 00.1" S | 101° 00' 00.0" E | Inlet |
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Name ID: 751
Place ID: 2174
A wide inlet with a very narrow entrance in the Bunger Hills, Knox Coast in Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). |
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| Cacapon Inlet (RUS) | 66° 10' 00.0" S | 101° 00' 00.0" E | Inlet |
| Name ID: 117348 Place ID: 2174 | |||
| Cacapon Inlet (USA) | 66° 10' 00.0" S | 101° 00' 00.0" E | Inlet |
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Name ID: 123190
Place ID: 2174
An inlet about 2 mi wide and 9 mi long, lying between Thomas Island and Fuller Island in the Highjump Archipelago. The inlet is bounded on the west by Edisto Ice Tongue and on the east by the coast of Antarctica. Mapped from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump in February 1947. Named by US-ACAN after USS Cacapon, a tanker in the Western Task Group of Operation Highjump, 1946-47. |
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| Penguin Point (AUS) | 67° 37' 04.1" S | 146° 11' 06.8" E | Point |
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Name ID: 2174
Place ID: 11075
A granite point, about 97 m high, marking the western extremity of Murphy Bay, George V Land. Discovered and named by the eastern coastal party of AAE (1911-14) led by C.T. Madigan. |
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