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
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.

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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