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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Albert Lancaster, Cap (BEL) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 44' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 104885
Place ID: 8059
A. Lancaster était directeur du service météorologique de l'Observatoir Royal de Belgique à Uccle. |
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| Cape Lancaster (GBR) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 44' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 109717
Place ID: 8059
S point of Anvers Island and SW entrance point of Neumayer Channel, was charted by BeAE, 9 February 1898, and named Cap Lancaster (Lecointe, map, 1899) or Cap Albert Lancaster (Gerlache, 1900b, p.475; Lecointe, 1900a, map facing p.132), after Albert Lancaster, Director, Service Météorologique de l'Observatoire Royal de Belgique; member of the Académie Royale de Belgique and of the Commission de la Belgica appointed in December 1899. Cape Lancaster (Cook, 1900, map p.xx; BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.13; BA chart 3572, 25.vii.1958). Capo Albert Lancaster (Gerlache, 1902a). Kap Lancaster (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Cap A. Lancaster (Charcot, 1906b, p.319). Cabo Lancaste [sic] (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map). Cape A. Lancaster (BA, 1916, p.404). The cape was further charted by DI in 1927. Kapp A. Lancaster (HA chart, 1927). Cap Tancaster [sic] (France. SHM, 1937, p.406). The cape was surveyed by FIDS from "Port Lockroy" in 1944. Cabo Lancaster (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.465; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.176). The cape was recharted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in co-operation with FIDS, 1956-57. |
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| Cape Lancaster (USA) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 44' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 127751
Place ID: 8059
Cape forming the S extremity of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873-74. Later sighted by the BelgAE, 1897-99, under Gerlache, who named it for Albert Lancaster, Scientific Dir. of the Meteorological Service of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and a supporter of the expedition. |
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| Lancaster, cabo (ARG) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 63° 44' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 101318 Place ID: 8059 | |||
| Lancaster, Cabo (CHL) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 61° 43' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 105798
Place ID: 8059
Fue descubierto por la Expedición Alemana, que guió Eduard Dallmann entre los años 1873-1874. Posteriormente fue visitado por la Expedición Belga en 1897-1899 , bajo la dirección del teniente Adrien de Gerlache, quien lo denominó así por Albert Lancaster, director científico del Servicio Meteorológico del Real Observatorio de Bélgica y auspiciador de la expedición. Cabo que forma la extremidad S de la isla Anvers, en el archipiélago de Palmer. Tiene una pared de hielo a pique de unos 40 metros de altura, despide a muy poca distancia piedras y pequeños islotes, en el archipiélago de Palmer. |
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