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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Lang Island (AUS) | 66° 57' 49.0" S | 57° 44' 46.3" E | Island |
Name ID: 1119
Place ID: 8081
An island just over 2 km long and about 110 m high, about 3 km east of the Øygarden Group. |
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Lang Island (USA) | 66° 59' 00.0" S | 57° 41' 00.0" E | Island |
Name ID: 127770
Place ID: 8081
Island 1 mi long and 0.4 mi wide, lying midway between Abrupt Island and the Oygarden Group. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and called by them Langoy (long island). |
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