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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| Dint Island (GBR) | 69° 24' 00.0" S | 71° 57' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 108515
Place ID: 3658
NE side of Lazarev Bay, N Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE in 1947 and mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959; so named from the distinctive corrie dinting the S side of the island ([in 69°17'S 71°49'W] APC, 1961, p.2; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p11; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS, 1978). |
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| Dint Island (USA) | 69° 17' 00.0" S | 71° 49' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 124369
Place ID: 3658
Rocky island, 1.5 mi long, lying 2 mi off the W side of Alexander Island in Lazarev Bay. Probably first seen from the air by the USAS, 1939-41. First mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. So named by the UK-APC because a distinctive cirque makes a dent, or dint, on the S side of the island. |
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