Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Half Moon Beach (GBR) | 62° 28' 48.6" S | 60° 46' 39.8" W | Beach |
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Name ID: 109170
Place ID: 5885
between Cape Shirreff and Black Point, NW Livingston Island, was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers; described as being approachable overland from Shirreff Cove and a useful refuge for boats caught between Desolation Island and Cape Shirreff in an E-ly gale; named Half-moon Beach from its shape (Fildes, 1821b). Halbmonds Gestade [=half moon beach] (Fildes, 1827, p.451). The beach was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Half Moon Beach (APC, 1959a, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 62 60, 1968). |
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| Half Moon Beach (USA) | 62° 29' 00.0" S | 60° 47' 00.0" W | Beach |
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Name ID: 126093
Place ID: 5885
Small beach lying 1 mi SE of Scarborough Castle on the N coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. This descriptive name was recorded by Robert Fildes, who had sealers working here in 1820-21 and 1821-22. |
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| Media Luna, Playa (CHL) | 62° 28' 00.0" S | 60° 46' 00.0" W | Beach |
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Name ID: 135030
Place ID: 5885
El nombre es descriptivo de la forma de la playa y habría sido puesto por los cazadores de lobos ingleses que visitaron el área durante el siglo XIX. Playa situada inmediatamente al SW de la punta Yuseff, en la costa oriental del cabo Shirreff de la isla Livingston, islas Shetland del Sur. |
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