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 River (NZL) | 78° 12' 00.0" S | 163° 45' 00.0" E | Watercourse |
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Name ID: 112638
Place ID: 261
Named by Griffith Taylor of the BrAE, 1911-13 (Capt. Robert Scott) from a passage in Coleridge's poem: "Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." |
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| Alph River (USA) | 78° 12' 00.0" S | 163° 45' 00.0" E | Watercourse |
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Name ID: 121733
Place ID: 261
Named by Griffith Taylor of the BrAE, 1911-13 (Capt. Robert Scott) from a passage in Coleridge's poem: "Where Alph the sacred river ran, Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." |
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| Cape Spencer (AUS) | 68° 20' 40.0" S | 147° 41' 04.8" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 261
Place ID: 13799
A cape at the eastern corner of the depression occupied by the Ninnis Glacier, on the coast of George V Land. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Sir Baldwin Spencer, Director of the National Museum, Melbourne in 1911. |
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