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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| Haswell Island (AUS) | 66° 31' 33.1" S | 92° 59' 38.4" E | Island |
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Name ID: 826
Place ID: 6085
A rocky island about 1 km wide, 4 km off the coast of Queen Mary Land, just east of McDonald Bay. |
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| Haswell Island (RUS) | 66° 31' 00.0" S | 93° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 118393 Place ID: 6085 | |||
| Haswell Island (USA) | 66° 31' 00.0" S | 93° 00' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 126280
Place ID: 6085
The largest of the Haswell Islands, lying off the coast of Antarctica, about 1.5 mi N of Mabus Point. Discovered by the Western Base Party of the AAE, 1911-14, under Mawson, and named by him for Prof. William A. Haswell, zoologist at Sydney University and member of the AAE Advisory Committee. |
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