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
Artigas Station (USA) 62° 11' 04.0" S 58° 54' 08.0" W Station
Name ID: 135865 Place ID: 554

A year-round station operated by Uruguay opened in 1984 - Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP), May 18, 2006.

Artigas, Base (URY) 62° 11' 04.0" S 58° 54' 08.0" W Station
Name ID: 134003 Place ID: 554

Scientific Base.

Suvorov Glacier (AUS) 69° 55' 59.9" S 160° 00' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 554 Place ID: 14277

A glacier east of Hornblends Bluffs in Oates Land. It is partly in the Ross Dependency. Discovered and photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Photographed by ANARE (1959) and the US Navy. Named by the Soviet Expedition after V.C. Suvorov, a mechanic who died in the Arctic.

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