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
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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