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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| Cañón Point (USA) | 64° 34' 00.0" S | 61° 55' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 123271
Place ID: 2275
Point marking the SW side of the entrance to Bancroft Bay, on the W coast of Graham Land. First roughly charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. The name appears on an Argentine government chart of 1954. |
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| Cañón, punta (ARG) | 64° 34' 00.0" S | 61° 55' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 100426 Place ID: 2275 | |||
| Icarus Point (GBR) | 64° 34' 00.0" S | 61° 54' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 109452
Place ID: 2275
SW entrance point of Bancroft Bay, Danco Coast, was roughly charted on 7 February 1898 by BeAE, which sailed between this feature and Nansen Island to the W; photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; called Punta Cañón [=tube point] by AAE (Argentina. MM chart 129, 1957); in association with the names of pioneers of aviation grouped in this area, named after Icarus who, with Daedalus in Greek mythology (Daedalus Point, q.v.), made wings and became the first to fly (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Cañón Point (USBGN, 1965, p.94). |
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| The Wall (AUS) | 69° 24' 14.0" S | 76° 23' 28.0" E | Wall |
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Name ID: 2275
Place ID: 15700
A steep ridge in the Larsemann Hills which lies just to the south-west of the Russian Progress 1 Base. |
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