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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| Hugershoff Cove (GBR) | 64° 39' 00.0" S | 62° 23' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 109409
Place ID: 6717
NW side of Wilhelmina Bay, SW of Emma Island, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-59; in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry and air survey grouped in this area, named after Carl Reinhard Hugershoff (1882-1941), German geodesist and designer of the autocartograph, an instrument which first applied the principles of photogrammetry to air photographs in c. 1921 (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). |
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| Hugershoff Cove (USA) | 64° 38' 00.0" S | 62° 23' 00.0" W | Cove |
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Name ID: 126798
Place ID: 6717
Cove lying 2 mi NW of Beaupre Cove in Withelmina Bay, along the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Carl R. Hugershoff (1882-1941), German geodesist who designed the autocartograph, an instrument which first applied the principles of photogrammetry to air photos, in about 1921. |
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| Hugershoff, caleta (ARG) | 64° 39' 00.0" S | 62° 23' 00.0" W | Cove |
| Name ID: 101180 Place ID: 6717 | |||
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