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
Adamson Bay (AUS) 68° 38' 08.9" S 78° 02' 49.9" E Bay
Name ID: 118 Place ID: 63

A bay in the Vestfold Hills on the northern side of Crooked Fjord just to the west of Lake Burton and south of Mule Peninsula. The bay is ice covered in winter and often ice free in summer.

Gwynn Bay (AUS) 67° 04' 46.9" S 58° 01' 55.6" E Bay
Name ID: 63 Place ID: 5827

A bay just west of the Hoseason Glacier. Mapped and called Breidvika (The Broad Bay) by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37).

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