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
Green Reef (GBR) 64° 44' 00.0" S 63° 18' 00.0" W Reef
Name ID: 109103 Place ID: 5646

W side of Neumayer Channel, off Green Spur (q.v.), Anvers Island, was charted from HMS Snipe (Capt. J.G. Forbes, RN) in January 1948 and so named in association with the spur (APC, 1955, p.11; BA chart 3213, 23.iii.1956).

Green Reef (USA) 64° 44' 00.0" S 63° 17' 00.0" W Reef
Name ID: 125917 Place ID: 5646

Group of low rocks in Neumayer Channel, lying close E of Green Spur, Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Charted from HMS Snipe in January 1948 and so named because of proximity to Green Spur.

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