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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| Andenes Knoll (USA) | 72° 26' 00.0" S | 22° 50' 00.0" W | Knoll |
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Name ID: 121786
Place ID: 343
The southeastern most knoll in a group of three knolls (Andenes, Explora and Polarstern) in the Weddell Sea. Named for the Norwegian coast-guard vessel K.V. Andenes. Name proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 271). |
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| Andenes Knoll (GEBCO) | 72° 24' 00.0" S | 23° 00' 00.0" W | Knoll |
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Name ID: 136450
Place ID: 343
Proposer: Dr.H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after the Norwegian R/V "Andenes" which carried out geophysical research in this part of the Weddell Sea. Least depth: 3,450 m. |
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| Sandford Cliffs (AUS) | 83° 52' 00.1" S | 159° 30' 00.0" E | Cliff |
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Name ID: 343
Place ID: 12703
Prominent cliffs rising from the Marsh Glacier in the southern part of the Queen Elizabeth Range (Ross Dependency) just north of Law Glacier. Discovered on 26 December, 1957, by the Southern Survey Party of the New Zealand component of the TAE (1956-58). Named after N. Sandford, IGY scientist at Scott Base in 1957. |
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