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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| Macleod Point (GBR) | 64° 05' 00.0" S | 61° 58' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 109962
Place ID: 8825
SE point of Liège Island, Palmer Archipelago, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after John James Rickard Macleod (1876-1935), Scottish physiologist; Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto, 1918-28, who with Sir Frederick Banting and Dr C.H. Best discovered insulin in 1922; Nobel Laureate in medicine, 1923; Regius Professor of Physiology, University of Aberdeen, 1928-35 (APC, 1960, p.6; BA chart, 3560, 7.iv.1961). |
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| Macleod Point (USA) | 64° 06' 00.0" S | 61° 58' 00.0" W | Point |
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Name ID: 128316
Place ID: 8825
Point forming the SE tip of Liege Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1957, but not named. Photographed from the air by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS in 1959. Named by the UK-APC for John J.R. Macleod (1876-1935), Scottish physiologist who was one of the discoverers of insulin in 1922. |
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| Macleod, punta (ARG) | 64° 05' 00.0" S | 61° 58' 00.0" W | Point |
| Name ID: 101447 Place ID: 8825 | |||
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