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
Hobbs Point (GBR) 64° 37' 00.0" S 62° 02' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 109330 Place ID: 6438

NE point of Brooklyn Island, Wilhelmina Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Danco Island" and "Portal Point", 1956-58; named after Graham John Hobbs (1934-1999), FIDS geologist, "Danco Island", 1957-59 (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Punta Manchada [=speckled point], so called descriptively by AAE (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter H).

Hobbs Point (USA) 64° 37' 00.0" S 62° 03' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 126566 Place ID: 6438

The NE end of Brooklyn Island in Wilhelmina Bay, off the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Graham J. Hobbs, FIDS geologist at the Danco Island station in 1957 and 1958 who made a geologic reconnaissance survey of the coast between Cape Murray and Cape Willems.

Manchada, punta (ARG) 64° 37' 00.0" S 62° 01' 00.0" W Point
Name ID: 101459 Place ID: 6438

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