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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| Banzare Coast (AUS) | 67° 00' 00.0" S | 126° 00' 00.0" E | Coast |
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Name ID: 357
Place ID: 867
The portion of the coast of Wilkes Land lying between Cape Southard and Cape Morse. Seen on 15 and 16 January, 1931, by BANZARE (1929-31) under Sir Douglas Mawson. Named after the expedition. |
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| BANZARE Coast (RUS) | 67° 00' 00.0" S | 126° 00' 00.0" E | Coast |
| Name ID: 116955 Place ID: 867 | |||
| Banzare Coast (USA) | 67° 00' 00.0" S | 126° 00' 00.0" E | Coast |
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Name ID: 122174
Place ID: 867
That portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Southard, in 12205E, and Cape Morse, in 13010E. Seen from the air by the British-Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1930-31, under Douglas Mawson. The name by Mawson is an acronym of the expedition title. |
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| Van Hulssen Island (AUS) | 67° 33' 15.8" S | 62° 43' 05.2" E | Island |
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Name ID: 867
Place ID: 15299
A low island, one of a group of ten small islands, about 9 km north-west of Mawson. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). The island was included in a triangulation survey carried out by Robert Dovers, officer-in-charge at Mawson in 1954. In 1955, an ANARE party landed there and established an automatic meteorological station. |
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