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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| Barchans, islas (ARG) | 65° 14' 00.0" S | 64° 20' 00.0" W | |
| Name ID: 100200 Place ID: 878 | |||
| The Barchans (GBR) | 65° 14' 00.0" S | 64° 20' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 107661
Place ID: 878
W-most group of Argentine Islands, Graham Coast, were charted by BGLE in 1935 (Rymill and others, 1938, p.91; APC, 1955, p.5; BA chart 3213, 23.iii.1956; DOS 610 sheet W 65 64, 1959). The Bachans [sic] (BA, 1956, p.108). Islas Barchans (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 6). |
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| The Barchans (USA) | 65° 14' 00.0" S | 64° 20' 00.0" W | |
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Name ID: 122180
Place ID: 878
Group of small snow-capped islands marking the W end of the Argentine Islands, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Charted by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill, and so named by him because the snow caps resemble barchans (also barkhans), migrating, crescent-shaped sand dunes found in several very dry regions of the world. |
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| Zvuchnyy Island (AUS) | 68° 30' 29.2" S | 78° 06' 57.2" E | Island |
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Name ID: 878
Place ID: 16544
An island in the western part of Long Fjord, Vestfold Hills, just north-west of Partizan Island. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958. Named Ostrov Zvuchnyy (Sonorous Island) by the Soviet Expedition. |
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