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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| Léal Bluff (GBR) | 63° 53' 00.0" S | 57° 35' 00.0" W | Bluff |
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Name ID: 109772
Place ID: 8251
rising to 485m NE of Cape Lamb, Vega Island, was called Cerro Léal by AAE, after Mayor Jorge Edgard Léal, of the Argentine Army, Deputy Commander of the Argentine station "Esperanza" in 1947, and Commander of "General San Martín", 1953-54 (Argentina. IAA map, [1959c]); following survey by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1958-61, named Leal Bluff (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/13, 1-DOS 1974). Cerro Rodríguez Argumedo, so called by AAE after an Argentine army officer who died in the Antarctic (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter R). |
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| Léal Bluff (USA) | 63° 53' 00.0" S | 57° 35' 00.0" W | Bluff |
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Name ID: 127888
Place ID: 8251
A rounded bluff rising to 485 m, 2 mi inland from Cape Lamb in the SW part of Vega Island. Named by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition after Mayor Jorge Leal, deputy leader at the Argentine station "Esperanza" in 1947. |
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| Rodriguez Argumedo, cerro (ARG) | 63° 51' 00.0" S | 57° 35' 00.0" W | Bluff |
| Name ID: 102031 Place ID: 8251 | |||
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