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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| Amery Basin (USA) | 68° 15' 00.0" S | 74° 30' 00.0" E | Basin |
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Name ID: 121752
Place ID: 294
An undersea basin named on GEBCO 5.18. Name approved 6/88 (ACUF 228). |
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| Amery Basin (GEBCO) | 68° 15' 00.0" S | 74° 30' 00.0" E | Basin |
| Name ID: 136447 Place ID: 294 | |||
| Amery Depression (AUS) | 68° 15' 00.0" S | 74° 30' 00.0" E | Depression |
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Name ID: 393
Place ID: 294
A large gentle depression on the seafloor of Prydz Bay to approximately 900 m deep. The feature occupies the centre of Prydz Bay below 500 m and probably acts a depot centre for sedimentation in Prydz Bay. Named for its association with the Amery Ice Shelf. |
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| Cape Wilkins (AUS) | 67° 14' 51.7" S | 59° 19' 35.4" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 294
Place ID: 16063
A rocky cape at the north-west tip of Fold Island, off the coast of Kemp Land. Discovered on 18 February 1931 by BANZARE under Sir Douglas Mawson. Plotted by the William Scoresby Expedition (1936). Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). |
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