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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| CafĂ© Point (USA) | 64° 39' 00.0" S | 61° 59' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 123200
Place ID: 2187
Point lying 2 mi S of Zapato Point and 2 mi E of Nansen Island on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache 1897-99. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1954. |
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| Point Alden (AUS) | 66° 48' 00.0" S | 142° 02' 00.0" E | Point |
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Name ID: 2187
Place ID: 184
An ice-covered point with rock exposures along its seaward side, about 22 km north-west of Cape Hunter in George V Land. Discovered on 30 January, 1930, by the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42), under Wilkes, who named it after Lieut. James Alden of the expedition's flagship Vincennes. |
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