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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| Cape Freshfield (AUS) | 68° 20' 42.0" S | 150° 55' 26.6" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 283
Place ID: 4950
An ice-covered cape on the coast of George V Land between Cook Ice Shelf and Deakin Bay. Discovered by A A E (1911-14) under Sir Douglas Mawson, who named it after Douglas Freshfield, one-time President of the Royal Geological Society. In 1912 Cape Freshfield was the northernmost point of a prominent peninsula; in 1958 ANARE under Phillip Law found the point of Cape Freshfield to have broken away. |
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| Cape Freshfield (RUS) | 68° 20' 00.0" S | 151° 05' 00.0" E | Cape |
| Name ID: 118083 Place ID: 4950 | |||
| Cape Freshfield (USA) | 68° 20' 00.0" S | 151° 00' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 125395
Place ID: 4950
An ice-covered cape between Deakin Bay and Cook Ice Shelf. The coastline in this vicinity was first roughly charted by the USEE (1838-42) under Lt. Charles Wilkes, and for a period this cape was thought to be Wilkes' Cape Hudson (q.v.). The cape was mapped in 1912 by the Far Eastern Party of the AAE under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Douglas Freshfield, a long-time member of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, and one time president of that organization. |
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