Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Jinks Island (GBR) | 65° 23' 00.0" S | 65° 38' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 109534
Place ID: 7142
one of the NW Pitt Islands (q.v.), Biscoe Islands, was roughly charted by AAE, 1954-55; photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of characters from Pickwick papers in this area, named after Mr Jinks (APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Isla Pedro Nelson, after Pedro Nelson, owner of the Argentine ship San Juan Nepomuceno which sailed to the sub-Antarctic regions in the early 1800s (Argentina. MM chart H-772, 1964; Pierrou, 1970, p.580). Islote Pedro Nelson (Argentina. MM chart H-715, 1969). |
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| Jinks Island (USA) | 65° 22' 00.0" S | 65° 38' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 127104
Place ID: 7142
Island lying 5 mi N of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 after a character in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. |
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