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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| Amphitheatre Lake (AUS) | 68° 06' 00.0" S | 48° 45' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 1196
Place ID: 310
A smooth-surfaced, melt lake approximately 3 km by 3 km running east-west. The lake is almost completely enclosed by rock and ice cliffs, forming an amphitheatre, with an outlet into the Rayner Glacier at the western end. Photographed in 1956 from ANARE aircraft and visited by an ANARE airborne field party in November, 1958. |
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| Amphitheatre Lake (USA) | 68° 06' 00.0" S | 48° 45' 00.0" E | Water body |
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Name ID: 121763
Place ID: 310
A smooth-surfaced meltwater lake 1.5 mi long in the W part of Amphitheatre Peaks, Nye Mountains. The lake is almost completely enclosed by rock and ice cliffs, forming an amphitheatre, with an outlet into Rayner Glacier at the W end. Photographed in 1956 from ANARE aircraft and visited by an ANARE airborne field party in 1958. The descriptive name was applied by ANCA. |
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| Cape Keltie (AUS) | 66° 04' 30.0" S | 133° 19' 22.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 310
Place ID: 7438
An ice-covered cape on the Wilkes Coast, about 20 km west of Cape Cesney. Discovered by AAE (1911-14) from the SYAurora. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after Dr. Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geological Society in 1911. Mawson described this feature as being the most northerly part of the Wilkes Coast. It is the most northly part west of Davis Bay, but air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and ANARE show that the coast east of the Dibble Iceberg Tongue extends farther north. |
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