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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| Eroica Peninsula (GBR) | 71° 12' 00.0" S | 72° 05' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 108703
Place ID: 4319
between Wilkins Ice Shelf and Mendelssohn Inlet, W Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS, 1961-73, was named after Beethoven's Eroica symphony (1804), in association with Beethoven Peninsula (APC, 1975, p.3). |
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| Eroica Peninsula (USA) | 71° 11' 00.0" S | 72° 30' 00.0" W | Peninsula |
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Name ID: 124873
Place ID: 4319
An ice-covered peninsula lying N of Beethoven Peninsula and Mendelssohn Inlet in W Alexander Island. Mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by RARE, 1947-48, and from survey by FIDS, 1948-50. Named by UK-APC after Beethoven's Eroica symphony (1804), in association with Beethoven Peninsula. |
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