The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible...
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The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending...
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Dream Island (category Antarctic Specially Managed Areas)
British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-1957 and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for its natural features including a cave and, in summer...
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Antarctica UK_Antarctic_Place-Names_Committee AAD website This article incorporates public domain material from "Australian Antarctic Names and Medals...
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Brunt Ice Shelf (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
the Antarctic coast of Coats Land between Dawson-Lambton Glacier and Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee...
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since then. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named Lake Hodgson on November 20, 2007, after Dominic Hodgson, a British Antarctic Survey paleolimnologist...
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Palmer Land (category British Antarctic Territory)
agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for...
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peninsula. Agreement on the name "Antarctic Peninsula" by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names and UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1964 resolved a long-standing...
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Longing Peninsula (section Discovery and name)
Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901-04, who named Cape Longing. The peninsula was named after the cape by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC)...
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December 2020 it was announced that the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee had named a glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula after Shanklin, in part to mark...
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Fildes Peninsula (category Antarctic Specially Protected Areas)
Antarctica. It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960; the strait was likely named for Robert...
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Lacuna Island (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because the island lies in a lacuna (a gap) in the vertical air photos. List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic...
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Coal Island, South Georgia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
1960–61. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 in association with Coal Harbor. List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands This...
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Cumberland West Bay (section Named features)
Survey, 1951–52, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee proposed altering the name to Cumberland West Bay and rejecting all other names. This change brings...
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Mount Leo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947, and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1958. The name applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names...
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Russell West Glacier (section Mapping and name)
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Victor Ian Russell, surveyor and leader...
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located northwest of the entrance to Diaz Cove. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 2009 after Mikhail Lazarev (1788–1851), commander...
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Malus Island (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for French physicist Étienne-Louis Malus, who...
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Hennessy Islands (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Argentine government chart of 1957. The group was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Jack Hennessy (1885–1954), Deputy Marine...
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Richardson Cove (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Corral Point, falls within Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 109. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 2006 after Michael George...
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Mount Macklin (South Georgia) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
1951–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Alexander H. Macklin, the medical officer of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition under...
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Witches Cauldron (Antarctica) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee...
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Fowler Islands, in Crystal Sound, on the Antarctic Peninsula were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in his honour. Fowler was a keen amateur...
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feature on King George Island near Melville Peak, named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. Australian poet Rosemary Dobson wrote about...
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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (redirect from Composite Antarctic Gazetteer)
Australia: Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee Bulgaria: Antarctic Place-names Commission Canada: Geographical Names Board of Canada Chile:...
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Prime Head (section Name)
identified by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) as a point two miles to the east-southeast, now called Siffrey Point. The name Prime Head, given...
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Karelin Islands (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Dmitriy Karelin (1913–1953), a Soviet meteorologist...
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Wordie Bay (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Shelf, on the Fallières Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1999 in association with the Wordie...
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Mount Kershaw (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Giles E.G. Kershaw (1948–1990), a British Antarctic Survey senior pilot, 1974–79...
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Haffner Pass (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
Antarctica. It was surveyed by the British Antarctic Survey, 1975–77, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1980, after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's...
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