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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| Kamenev Bight (USA) | 69° 55' 00.0" S | 9° 30' 00.0" E | Bight |
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Name ID: 127232
Place ID: 7328
A shallow embayment about 25 mi wide in the ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land. Cape Krasinskiy, an ice cape, marks the W end of the bight which lies 60 mi NW of Schirmacher Hills. The bight was photographed from the air by NorAE in 1958-59 and was mapped from these photos. It was also mapped in 1961 by SovAE who named it for S.S. Kamenev, organizer of Arctic expeditions. |
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| Sergeja Kameneva, zaliv (RUS) | 69° 53' 00.0" S | 9° 10' 00.0" E | Bight |
| Name ID: 120497 Place ID: 7328 | |||
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