Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Cape Leblond (GBR) | 66° 04' 00.0" S | 66° 36' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 109774
Place ID: 8259
NE point of Lavoisier Island (q.v.), Biscoe Islands, and SW entrance point of Pendleton Strait, was charted by FAE, 1908-10, in 1909 and named Cap Leblond, after M. Leblond, Mayor of Rouen and President of the Norman Geographical Society, who was with the reception committee at Rouen to meet the expedition on its return to France (Charcot, [1911b], p.307-08) (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Cape Leblond (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914; APC, 1955, p.13; DCS 601 sheet 66 66, 1955; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961). Kapp Leblond (HA chart, 1927). Cape Le Bland [sic] (USAAF chart 1762, 1946). Cape Le Blond (USHO chart 6653, 1946). Cabo Le Blond (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). The cape was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Cabo Leblond (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.180). Punta Florida, so called by AAE after the Argentine victory in the battle of Florida (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter F). |
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| Cape Leblond (USA) | 66° 04' 00.0" S | 66° 36' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 127894
Place ID: 8259
Cape forming the N end of Lavoisier Island, in the Biscoe Islands. Charted by the FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10, and named by him for the President of the Norman Geographical Society at Rouen. |
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| Florida, punta (ARG) | 66° 03' 00.0" S | 66° 38' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 100907 Place ID: 8259 | |||
| Leblond, cabo (ARG) | 66° 04' 00.0" S | 66° 36' 00.0" W | Cape |
| Name ID: 101353 Place ID: 8259 | |||
| Leblond, Cabo (CHL) | 66° 03' 00.0" S | 66° 40' 00.0" W | Cape |
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Name ID: 105819
Place ID: 8259
Cartografiado por la Expedición Antártica Francesa, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien le dio este nombre en honor del presidente de la Sociedad Geográfica Normanda de Rouen. Cabo que constituye el extremo N de la isla Serrano, en las islas Biscoe. |
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