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
Lazarev Ice Shelf (USA) 69° 37' 00.0" S 14° 45' 00.0" E Ice shelf
Name ID: 127877 Place ID: 8234

That part of the ice shelf fringing the coast of Queen Maud Land between Leningradskiy Island and Verblyud Island. It is about 50 mi long. First photographed from the air and mapped by the GerAE, 1938-39. Explored and mapped by the SovAE in 1959, and named for Lt. (later Admiral) Mikhail P. Lazarev, commander of the sloop Mirnyy.

Lazareva, shel'fovyj lednik (RUS) 69° 45' 00.0" S 14° 30' 00.0" E Ice shelf
Name ID: 119001 Place ID: 8234

Lazarevisen (NOR) 70° 00' 00.0" S 14° 30' 00.0" E Ice shelf
Name ID: 115551 Place ID: 8234

The ice shelf S of Sedovodden, Prinsesse Astrid Kyst. After lieutenant Mikhail P. Lazarev. See Lazarevkysten.

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