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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Keltie Head (GBR) | 63° 48' 00.0" S | 57° 40' 00.0" W | Head |
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Name ID: 109593
Place ID: 7437
NW point of Vega Island, rising to 190m and forming E entrance point of N end of Herbert Sound, was mapped by SwAE in October 1903 and named Kap Scott Keltie, after Sir John Scott Keltie (1840-1927), Scot- tish geographer; Librarian, 1885-92, and Secretary, 1892-1915, of the RGS (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cape Scott Keltie (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p.316; BA chart 3205, 31.x.1921; APC, 1955, p.19). Cabo Scott Keltie (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.225). Cap Scott Keltie (Charcot, 1912, Pl.11). The feature was further surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in December 1945. Cabo Lynch, so called by AAE after Coronel Francisco Lynch, Argentine patriot who took part in the War of Independence (Argentine. MM, 1953, p.333; Pierrou, 1970, p.495). Cape Keltie (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3205, 23.xi.1962). Keltie Head (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Keltie Head (USA) | 63° 47' 00.0" S | 57° 41' 00.0" W | Head |
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Name ID: 127315
Place ID: 7437
Rounded headland with vertical cliffs which rise to a small ice dome 395 m high, forming the NW end of Vega Island, south of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by the SwedAE under Nordenskjold, 1901-04, and named by him for Sir John Scott Keltie, Sec. of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915. |
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| Lynch, cabo (ARG) | 63° 47' 00.0" S | 57° 41' 00.0" W | Head |
| Name ID: 101430 Place ID: 7437 | |||
| Scott-Keltie, Cabo (CHL) | 63° 48' 00.0" S | 57° 43' 00.0" W | Head |
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Name ID: 106240
Place ID: 7437
Fue descubierto por la Expedición Sueca de 1901-1904, al mando de Nordenskjöld y denominado así por Sir John Scott Keltie, secretario de la Real Sociedad Geográfica de 1892 a 1915. Es un morro redondo, de paredes acantiladas de 430 metros de altura, forma el extremo NW de la isla Vega. |
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