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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| Hercules Inlet (RUS) | 80° 05' 00.0" S | 78° 30' 00.0" W | Inlet |
| Name ID: 118435 Place ID: 6285 | |||
| Hercules Inlet (GBR) | 80° 04' 00.0" S | 79° 00' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 109282
Place ID: 6285
inlet of Ronne Ice Shelf on S side of Skytrain Ice Rise, with its NW extremity lying outside BAT, was photographed from the air by USN in 1961, 1962 and 1964, and mapped from air photographs by USGS in 1966; named after the US LC-130 Hercules turbo-prop aircraft, made by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and used extensively on USARP for load carrying and photographic flights (USGS sheet SU 16-20/2, 1967; APC, 1974, p.4; USGS satellite image map Ellsworth Mountains, 1976; BAS sheet Misc. 2, 1981). |
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| Hercules Inlet (USA) | 80° 05' 00.0" S | 78° 30' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 126457
Place ID: 6285
A large, narrow, ice-filled inlet which forms a part of the SW margin of Ronne Ice Shelf. It is bounded on the W by the SE flank of the Heritage Range, and on the N by Skytrain Ice Rise. Named by US-ACAN for the LC-130 Hercules aircraft used by the U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, as a photographic and load carrying plane. |
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