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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Hannah Island (USA) | 76° 39' 00.0" S | 148° 48' 00.0" W | Island |
Name ID: 126166
Place ID: 5963
An ice-covered island in Marshall Archipelago, lying between Hutchinson Island and Guest Peninsula within Sulzberger Ice Shelf. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by US-ACAN for J.P. Hannah, USARP ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station in 1968. |
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