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
Hole Rock (GBR) 61° 53' 25.5" S 57° 41' 08.8" W Rock
Name ID: 109341 Place ID: 6502

awash N of North Foreland, King George Island, was charted by DI in 1937 and so named because a conspicuous hole extends through it (Hill and others, chart, 1937b; BA, 1942, p.40; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 610 sheet W 62 56, 1968). Nole [sic] Rock (Hill, 1937). Roca Hole (Argentina. MM chart 104, 1949). Roca Perforada [=perforated rock] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.199). Rocher Hole (France. SHM, 1954, p.45). Roca Ventana [=window rock] (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.40; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.292). Roca de la Ventana (Argentina. MM chart 125, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.711).

Hole Rock (USA) 61° 53' 00.0" S 57° 44' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 126617 Place ID: 6502

The largest of several rocks lying close N of North Foreland, the NE cape of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted in 1937 by DI personnel on the extends through it.

Ventana del chileno, Roca (CHL) 61° 52' 00.0" S 57° 38' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 106431 Place ID: 6502

Su nombre es descriptivo y se debe al hecho de estar horadada. La más al S de un grupo de tres rocas que se encuentran ubicadas inmediatas al NW del cabo Promontorio Norte, extremo NE de la isla Rey Jorge de las islas Shetland del Sur.

Ventana, roca de la (ARG) 61° 53' 00.0" S 57° 44' 00.0" W Rock
Name ID: 102401 Place ID: 6502

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