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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| Ginger Islands (GBR) | 67° 45' 00.0" S | 68° 42' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 109029
Place ID: 5337
W of Cape Alexandra, S Adelaide Island, were charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from John Biscoe in 1963 and named after Kenneth Ginger (b. 1928), Principal Civil Hydrographic Officer, Hydrographic Department, responsible for Admiralty charts of the Antarctic from 1958 (BA, 1963, p.14; APC, 1964, p.3; BA chart 3577, 14.viii.1964). |
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| Ginger Islands (USA) | 67° 45' 00.0" S | 68° 42' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 125696
Place ID: 5337
Group of islands lying W of Cape Alexandra, off the S end of Adelaide Island. Surveyed by the RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1962-63. Named by the UK-APC for Kenneth Ginger, Civil Hydrographic Officer responsible for British Admiralty charts of the Antarctic for a number of years beginning in 1958. The largest of the islands appears reddish when free of snow. |
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