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 Armitage (NZL) | 77° 51' 00.0" S | 166° 40' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 112675
Place ID: 517
Cape forming the S end of Hut Point Peninsula and the southernmost point on Ross Island. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, under Scott, and named by him for Lt. (later Captain) Albert B. Armitage, second in command and navigator on the Discovery. |
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| Cape Armitage (RUS) | 77° 52' 00.0" S | 166° 40' 00.0" E | Cape |
| Name ID: 116867 Place ID: 517 | |||
| Cape Armitage (USA) | 77° 51' 00.0" S | 166° 40' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 121919
Place ID: 517
Cape forming the S end of Hut Point Peninsula and the southernmost point on Ross Island. Discovered by the BrNAE, 1901-04, under Scott, and named by him for Lt. (later Captain) Albert B. Armitage, second in command and navigator on the Discovery. |
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| Pryor Glacier (AUS) | 70° 05' 00.0" S | 160° 10' 00.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 517
Place ID: 11680
A glacier, partly in the Ross Dependency and about 57 km long, flowing north-eastwards to the sea to the north of Mount Sheilds. Plotted from aerial photographs taken by the US Navy in 1960-62. Named after M.E. Pryor, biologist and station scientific leader at McMurdo Station in 1959; US observer at Mirny, winter party, 1962. |
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