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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| Elephant Seal Cove (POL) | 62° 05' 30.0" S | 57° 57' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 116456
Place ID: 4167
Cove between Turret Point and Mersey Split, Bransfield Strait. Name introduced by A. Paulo, member of geological party of the 1979/80 Polish Antarctic Expedition to King George Island, after abundant Elephant Seal, (Mirounga leonina). |
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| See-Elefanten-Bucht (DEU) | 62° 09' 00.0" S | 58° 57' 00.0" W | Bay |
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Name ID: 107101
Place ID: 4167
Bay at the NW coast of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island. Named during expeditions conducted from 1982 to 1985, organized by the Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg and the Geomorphological Laboratory of the Freie Universtät Berlin. |
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