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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| Scend Rocks (GBR) | 64° 48' 00.0" S | 64° 16' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 111060
Place ID: 12797
SW of Wylie Bay, Anvers Island, were charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit, 1956-57, and named descriptively, scend being a nautical term describing the horizontal forward and backward flow of sea-water breaking over a shallow obstruction, caused by the incoming ocean swell (APC, 1959a, p.11; BA chart 3572, 12.viii.1960). |
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| Scend Rocks (USA) | 64° 48' 00.0" S | 64° 15' 00.0" W | Rock |
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Name ID: 131254
Place ID: 12797
Small group of rocks lying 1.5 mi SW of Rumbler Rock and 2.5 mi WNW of Outcast Islands, off the SW coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57, and named by the UK-APC in 1958. Scend is a nautical term describing the horizontal forward and backward flow of sea water breaking over a shallow obstruction, caused by the incoming ocean swell. |
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