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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| Aurora Subglacial Basin (AUS) | 74° 00' 00.0" S | 114° 00' 00.0" E | Subglacial basin |
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Name ID: 2505
Place ID: 644
A subglacial basin within the Australian Antarctic Territory west and south of Dome Circe. It extends south E-NW towards the coast in the vicinity of the Shackleton Ice Shelf. Mapped in detail by radio echo sounding by the Scott Polar Research Institute. Named after Aurora (Captain J. K. Davis) the ship of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14. |
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| Aurora Subglacial Basin (USA) | 74° 00' 00.0" S | 114° 00' 00.0" E | Basin |
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Name ID: 122023
Place ID: 644
A large subglacial basin of Wilkes Land to the W of Dome Charlie and trending NW toward the coast in the vicinity of Shackleton Ice Shelf. The basin was delineated by the SPRI-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and named after Aurora, the ship of the AAE, 1911-14, led by Douglas Mawson. |
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