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 Davies (RUS) | 71° 53' 00.0" S | 99° 55' 00.0" W | Cape |
Name ID: 117630 Place ID: 3376 | |||
Cape Davies (USA) | 71° 50' 00.0" S | 100° 04' 00.0" W | Cape |
Name ID: 124142
Place ID: 3376
Ice-covered cape at the NE end of Hughes Peninsula, Thurston Island. First delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Frank Davies, physicist with the ByrdAE in 1928-30. |
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