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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| Garzón Point (GBR) | 64° 55' 00.0" S | 62° 53' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 108976
Place ID: 5152
S entrance point of Skontorp Cove, Paradise Harbour, Danco Coast, was roughly charted by BAE, 1920-22, and called South Point (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol. 5, p.60); photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island", 1956-57; called by AAE Punta Mariana (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.5), later changed to Punta Garzón after Gen. Eugenio Garzón (b. 1796), a hero of the Argentine War of Independence (Argentina. MM chart 129, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.384). Garzón Point (APC, 1980, p.3). |
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| Garzón Point (USA) | 64° 55' 00.0" S | 62° 53' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 125556
Place ID: 5152
Point between Oscar Cove and Skontorp Cove in southern Paradise Harbor, Danco Coast, Graham Land. Following Argentine exploration in the area, named in 1956 by the Comision de Coordinacion Geografica (Argentina) after General Eugenio Garzon, a hero of the Argentine War of Independence. |
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| Garzón, punta (ARG) | 64° 55' 00.0" S | 62° 53' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 100981 Place ID: 5152 | |||
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