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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| Filchner Trough (USA) | 77° 00' 00.0" S | 36° 00' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 125083
Place ID: 4585
An undersea trough extending north from its associated feature, the Filchner Ice Shelf. Name proposed by Dr. Heinrich Hinze, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 271). |
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| Filchner Trough (GEBCO) | 77° 00' 00.0" S | 36° 00' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 136502
Place ID: 4585
Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Name taken from the associated "Filchner Ice Shelf" which was named after Wilhelm Filchner (1877-1957), leader of the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1912. Latitude 75°30'S - 78°30'S, longitude 32°00'W - 40°00'W. |
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