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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| Maranga Island (GBR) | 65° 11' 00.0" S | 64° 23' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 109995
Place ID: 8969
NW-most of the Anagram Islands (q.v.), Graham Coast, following survey by FIDS from Faraday in 1960 was so named in anagrammatic association with the name of the islands (APC, 1962, p.21; BA chart 3572, 29.xi.1974). |
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| Maranga Island (USA) | 65° 12' 00.0" S | 64° 22' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 128407
Place ID: 8969
The westernmost of the Anagram Islands, lying on the S side of French Passage in the Wilhelm Archipelago. Named by the UK-APC, 1961, "maranga" is an anagram of the name Anagram. |
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