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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| Babushkin Island (AUS) | 69° 05' 52.0" S | 157° 34' 13.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 953
Place ID: 728
An Island about 6.5 km NNW of Archer Point, Oates Land. Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Plotted from a running survey from the MV Magga Dan in February 1959. Named after the Soviet Polar aviator, M.S. Babushkin. |
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| Babushkin Island (USA) | 69° 06' 00.0" S | 157° 36' 00.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 122078
Place ID: 728
Small island lying 5.5 mi N of Archer Point and 5 mi E of Matusevich Glacier Tongue. Mapped by the SovAE (1958) and named for Mikhail S. Babushkin (1893-1938), Soviet polar aviator lost in the Arctic. |
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| Babushkina, ostrov (RUS) | 69° 04' 00.0" S | 157° 25' 00.0" E | Island |
| Name ID: 116923 Place ID: 728 | |||
| Cook Ice Shelf (AUS) | 68° 40' 00.1" S | 152° 30' 00.0" E | Ice shelf |
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Name ID: 728
Place ID: 2935
An ice shelf occupying a deep recession of the coastline of George V Land between Cape Freshfield and Cape Hudson. The coastal recession was named Cook Bay by Sir Douglas Mawson after Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia in 1914. It was decided that since the bay was permanently filled by ice shelf, the name Cook Ice Shelf was more appropriate than Cook Bay. |
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