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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| Cavendish Icefalls (NZL) | 77° 49' 00.0" S | 161° 20' 00.0" E | Icefall |
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Name ID: 112957
Place ID: 2433
An icefall in the Taylor Glacier between Solitary Rocks and Cavendish Rocks, in Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF08 |
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| Cavendish Icefalls (USA) | 77° 49' 00.0" S | 161° 20' 00.0" E | |
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Name ID: 123390
Place ID: 2433
An icefall in the Taylor Glacier between Solitary Rocks and Cavendish Rocks, in Victoria Land. Named by C.S. Wright, of the BrAE (1910-13), after the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge, England, where Wright did much of his research work. |
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| Wheeler Rocks (AUS) | 66° 17' 03.6" S | 56° 07' 46.5" E | Rock |
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Name ID: 2433
Place ID: 1887
A small group of islands in Wheeler Bay, just west of Magnet Bay in Kemp Land. Mapped from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Brxdrene by Norwegian cartographers. Renamed after G.T. Wheeler, weather observer at Mawson in 1957. |
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