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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| Balaena Islands (AUS) | 66° 00' 44.0" S | 111° 05' 25.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 954
Place ID: 799
A small group of rocky islands close to the Budd Coast. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and named by the USACAN after the whaling factory ship Balaena from which sketches of the Knox and Budd coasts were obtained as the result of air reconnaissance and shipboard observations in 1947. First visited by an ANARE party led by Phillip Law in January, 1956. |
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| Barth Seamount (RUS) | 62° 48' 00.0" S | 41° 25' 00.0" W | |
| Name ID: 116982 Place ID: 954 | |||
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