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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| Cape Adare (NZL) | 71° 17' 00.0" S | 170° 14' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 112604
Place ID: 72
A prominent cape of black basalt which is in visual contrast to the rest of the snow-covered coast, forming the N tip of Adare Peninsula. The cape marks the NE extremity of Victoria Land and the W side of the entrance to the Ross Sea. Discovered in Jan. 1841 by Capt. James Ross, RN, who named it for his friend Viscount Adare, M.P. for Glamorganshire. |
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| Cape Adare (RUS) | 71° 17' 00.0" S | 170° 06' 00.0" E | Cape |
| Name ID: 116739 Place ID: 72 | |||
| Cape Adare (USA) | 71° 17' 00.0" S | 170° 14' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 121591
Place ID: 72
A prominent cape of black basalt which is in visual contrast to the rest of the snow-covered coast, forming the N tip of Adare Peninsula. The cape marks the NE extremity of Victoria Land and the W side of the entrance to the Ross Sea. Discovered in Jan. 1841 by Capt. James Ross, RN, who named it for his friend Viscount Adare, M.P. for Glamorganshire. |
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| Voskhod Bay (AUS) | 67° 40' 00.1" S | 45° 55' 59.9" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 72
Place ID: 15598
A bay in the Thala Hills, Enderby Land, about 3.7 km east of Molodezhnaya station. Photographed by ANARE in 1956 and the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1957. Named Bukhta Voskhod (Ascend Bay) by the Soviet Expedition. |
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