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
Lindsey Islands (RUS) 73° 35' 00.0" S 102° 30' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 119083 Place ID: 8470

Lindsey Islands (USA) 73° 37' 00.0" S 103° 18' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 128069 Place ID: 8470

A group of islands lying just off the NW tip of Canisteo Peninsula in Amundsen Sea. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Alton A. Lindsey, biologist with the ByrdAE, 1933-35.

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