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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| Barrier Bay (AUS) | 67° 45' 00.0" S | 81° 10' 00.1" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 79
Place ID: 938
An open bay in the eastern part of Prydz Bay just west of the West Ice Shelf. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Barriervika (The Barrier Bay). |
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| Barrier Bay (USA) | 67° 45' 00.0" S | 81° 15' 00.0" E | Bay |
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Name ID: 122229
Place ID: 938
An open bay in the coastal angle formed by the coast and the W end of the West Ice Shelf. Charted by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37, and named by them Barrierevika (Barrier Bay). "Barrier" is an obsolete term for "ice shelf." |
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| Barrierevika (RUS) | 67° 46' 00.0" S | 81° 21' 00.0" E | Bay |
| Name ID: 116981 Place ID: 938 | |||
| Zolotov Island (AUS) | 68° 39' 32.0" S | 77° 52' 07.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 938
Place ID: 16519
An island off Mule Peninsula in the southern part of the Vestfold Hills, about 1 km south of Hawker 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 Zolotova (Zolotov Island) by the Soviet Expedition after A.H. Zolotov, hydrologist, who died in Antarctica. |
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