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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| Enchantress Rocks (GBR) | 62° 42' 39.5" S | 60° 49' 02.1" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 108686
Place ID: 4247
off-shore rocks SE of Elephant Point, Livingston Island, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after the British sealing ship Enchantress (Capt. W. Bond) from Plymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands, 1821-22 (APC, 1962, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). |
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| Enchantress Rocks (USA) | 62° 42' 00.0" S | 60° 49' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 124822
Place ID: 4247
Group of rocks lying 1.5 mi SE of Elephant Point, Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1961 after the British sealing vessel the South Shetland Islands in 1821-22. |
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