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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| Cape Cox (GBR) | 75° 20' 00.0" S | 63° 08' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 108334
Place ID: 3064
NE point of Dodson Peninsula (q.v.), Orville Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Larry Eugene Cox, USARP radioman, "South Pole Station", winter 1964 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.3; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). |
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| Cape Cox (USA) | 75° 20' 00.0" S | 63° 08' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 123888
Place ID: 3064
Cape which forms the NE extremity of Dodson Peninsula at the W side of Ronne Ice Shelf. First sighted from the air by the RARE, 1947-48. Mapped by USGS from ground surveys and USN air photos, 1961-67. Named by US-ACAN for Larry E. Cox, radioman with the South Pole Station winter party in 1964. |
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