Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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 Ann (AUS) | 66° 09' 45.9" S | 51° 22' 56.3" E | Cape |
Name ID: 289
Place ID: 414
A cape on the Enderby Land coast, 6 km north of Mt. Biscoe. First applied by John Biscoe in March, 1831, to 'A bluff point in the south-east which has every appearance of a cape'. Sir Douglas Mawson described Cape Ann as a point on the coast near where the rocky peak of Mt. Biscoe rises. Aerial photography by ANARE in 1956-58 showed that there is no marked point on the coast near Mt. Biscoe so the name has been applied to the feature to the north. Probably named after Biscoe's mother. |
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Cape Ann (RUS) | 66° 09' 00.0" S | 51° 21' 00.0" E | Cape |
Name ID: 116837 Place ID: 414 | |||
Cape Ann (USA) | 66° 10' 00.0" S | 51° 22' 00.0" E | Cape |
Name ID: 121845
Place ID: 414
Projecting cape on the coast, surmounted by Mount Biscoe which rises to 700 meters. Photographed from the air on Dec. 22, 1929 by a Norwegian expedition under Riiser-Larsen in a flight from the Norvegia, and on Jan. 14, 1930 photographed from the Discovery by the BANZARE under Mawson. Both expeditions believed the peak rising just S of the cape to be the same as that discovered on March 16, 1831 and named Cape Ann by John Biscoe. The name Cape Ann, probably after Biscoe's wife, has been retained for the projecting cape; the surmounting peak was named Mount Biscoe by Mawson. |
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Jones Escarpment (AUS) | 70° 00' 22.0" S | 64° 18' 54.0" E | Escarpment |
Name ID: 414
Place ID: 7217
An ice escarpment about 19 km NNW of Mount Starlight in the Prince Charles Mountains. Recorded on terrestrial photographs taken by R.H. Lacey, surveyor at Mawson in 1955, and on ANARE aerial photography taken in 1965. Named after W.K. Jones, geophysicist at Wilkes in 1960. |
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