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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| Barrett Bluff (NZL) | 76° 42' 00.0" S | 161° 18' 00.0" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 112738
Place ID: 932
A massive bluff of Beacon Sandstone rising sheer 350 m from Gentle Valley and backed to the south by the ice and snow of The Flight Deck Neve. It is capped by a prominent knob of dolerite. Named after Peter Barrett who has done so much work on Beacon Supergroup rocks. |
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| Macey Islands (AUS) | 67° 26' 20.8" S | 63° 49' 09.1" E | Island |
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Name ID: 932
Place ID: 8792
Two small islands about 3 km south of Auster Islands in the eastern part of the Robinson Group off the Mawson Coast of Mac.Robertson Land. A refuge caravan was established in 1971 on one of the islands, which was occupied as a survey station in February, 1972. Named after Lem E. Macey, Officer-in-Charge at Mawson in 1971. |
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