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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| Minerva Rocks (GBR) | 63° 53' 00.0" S | 60° 37' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 110165
Place ID: 9619
off E end of Chionis Island, Trinity Island, Palmer Archipelago, were charted by whalers before 1920 and named after Minerva, one of the factory ship Pythia's whale catchers (Pythia Island, q.v.), which went aground on the rocks, 1 March 1922, and was abandoned as a total wreck (Lester, 1920-22a, Vol.1, p.124; APC, 1960, p.6). |
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| Minerva Rocks (USA) | 63° 53' 00.0" S | 60° 37' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 128938
Place ID: 9619
Small group of rocks lying off Chionis Island near Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. So named by whalers because the Minerva, one of the whale catchers of the British factory ship Pythia, went aground on these rocks in March 1922. The catcher was abandoned and, because of the heavy swell, became a total wreck. |
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