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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| League Rock (GBR) | 67° 46' 00.0" S | 69° 04' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 109771
Place ID: 8248
rising 6m above sea level on NW side of Quest Channel, SW Adelaide Island, was charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit from John Biscoe in 1963 and so named because it is one league distant from Adelaide (BA, 1963, p.31; APC, 1964, p.3; BA chart 3577, 14.viii.1964). League Island, in error (BA, 1963, p.12). |
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| League Rock (USA) | 67° 46' 00.0" S | 69° 04' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 127885
Place ID: 8248
Distinctive rounded rock lying SW of Box Reef, off the S end of Adelaide Island. Surveyed by the RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1962-63. So named by the UK-APC because the rock lies one league distant from Adelaide station. |
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