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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| Alph Lake (NZL) | 78° 12' 00.0" S | 163° 42' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 112637
Place ID: 260
Named by Griffth Taylor of the BrAE, 1911-13 (Capt. Robert Scott) in association with Alph River. |
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| Alph Lake (USA) | 78° 12' 00.0" S | 163° 42' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 121732
Place ID: 260
Named by Griffth Taylor of the BrAE, 1911-13 (Capt. Robert Scott) in association with Alph River. |
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| Cape Spieden (AUS) | 66° 25' 00.1" S | 126° 45' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 260
Place ID: 13820
A cape about 6 km east of Albov Rocks, on the western side of Porpoise Bay. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump and named by USACAN after W. Spieden, purser on the sloop Peacock, one of the ships with the US Exploring Expedition (1939-42) under Lieut. (Later Rear Adm.) C. Wilkes, USN. |
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