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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| Kirkby Head (AUS) | 67° 16' 58.0" S | 46° 25' 49.4" E | Head |
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Name ID: 642
Place ID: 7559
A sheer coastal outcrop on Tange Promontory, Enderby Land. Continental ice reaches almost to the top on its southern side. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by SL Kirkby in November, 1960. Named after SL Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson in 1960. |
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| Kirkby Head (RUS) | 67° 15' 00.0" S | 46° 30' 00.0" E | Head |
| Name ID: 118775 Place ID: 7559 | |||
| Kirkby Head (USA) | 67° 17' 00.0" S | 46° 29' 00.0" E | Head |
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Name ID: 127433
Place ID: 7559
Sheer coastal outcrop with the continental ice reaching almost to the top of its southern side, standing at the E side of the entrance to Alasheyev Bight in Enderby Land. Plotted from air photos taken by ANARE in 1956. First visited in November 1960 by S.L. Kirkby, surveyor at Mawson Station, for whom it is named. |
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