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 Ice Shelf (AUS) | 69° 45' 00.0" S | 71° 00' 00.0" E | Ice shelf |
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Name ID: 740
Place ID: 295
A broad ice shelf at the head of a large embayment, consisting of Prydz Bay and MacKenzie Bay. A prominent point of the ice shelf was mapped by BANZARE (1929-31) on 11 February, 1931. Further exploration showed that Cape Amery had broken off and floated away, so the name Amery was applied to the whole ice shelf. |
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| Amery Ice Shelf (RUS) | 69° 00' 00.0" S | 71° 00' 00.0" E | Ice shelf |
| Name ID: 116800 Place ID: 295 | |||
| Amery Ice Shelf (USA) | 69° 45' 00.0" S | 71° 00' 00.0" E | Ice shelf |
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Name ID: 121753
Place ID: 295
A broad ice shelf at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. The name "Cape Amery" was applied to a coastal angle mapped on Feb. 11, 1931 by the BANZARE under Douglas Mawson. He named it for William B. Amery, who represented the United Kingdom government in Australia (1925-28). The US-ACAN interpreted this feature to be a portion of an ice shelf and, in 1947, applied the name Amery to the whole shelf. |
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| Cape Wild (AUS) | 68° 23' 54.6" S | 149° 08' 55.1" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 295
Place ID: 16040
A prominent rocky cape about 57 km east of the Ninnis Glacier on the Coast of George V Land. Plotted by the eastern coastal party of AAE (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after F. Wild, a member of the expedition and leader of the Western Base Party in Queen Mary Land. |
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