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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| Lecointe Guyot (USA) | 65° 06' 00.0" S | 93° 00' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 127898
Place ID: 8263
An undersea tablemount named for George Lecointe, navigator/astronomer aboard the Belgica. Name proposed by Dr. Rick Hagen, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany. Name approved 6/97 (ACUF 270). |
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| Lecointe Guyot (GEBCO) | 65° 06' 00.0" S | 93° 00' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 136540
Place ID: 8263
Proposer: Dr. R. Hagen, AWI, Germany, Feb. 1997. Discoverer: R/V Polarstern, Apr. 1995. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Named after Georges Lecointe who was navigator/astronomer aboard R/V Belgica during her Antarctic exploration cruise 1896-1899. Least depth: 280 m. |
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