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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| Foster Plateau (GBR) | 64° 45' 00.0" S | 61° 30' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 108885
Place ID: 4859
SE of Charlotte Bay, Danco Coast, part of ice cap of N central Graham Land, rising to c.2150m, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed and traversed by FIDS from "Portal Point", October-November 1957; named after Richard Arthur Foster (b.1929), FIDS Base Leader, "Danco Island", 1956-58 (APC, 1960, p.4; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). |
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| Foster Plateau (USA) | 64° 43' 00.0" S | 61° 25' 00.0" W | Plateau |
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Name ID: 125313
Place ID: 4859
A plateau, about 80 square mi in area, lying between Drygalski and Hektoria Glaciers in northern Graham Land. Photographed by the FIDASE in 1956-57 and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Richard A. Foster, FIDS leader of the Danco Island station in 1956 and 1957. |
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