Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (south of latitude 60° S).

Creator

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Geoscience Standing Scientific Group.

Title

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (south of latitude 60° S).

Publisher

Rome : Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research,

Date

1998

Format

2 v.

Description

Second printing. Collated by the "Programma Nazionale di Recerche in Antartide" of Italy. On behalf of the SCAR Working Group on Geodesy and Geographic Information.
It is a compilation of all existing geographic names of Antarctica. Vol. 1 contains an alphabetical list with the country ISO code for the source of the name, the class code meaning the type of geographical feature and the unique reference number. Vol. 2 contains a list of reference numbers which corresponds to a geographic feature followed by a list of all the names given by the different countries with their ISO code and the geographical co-ordinates asigned.

Subject

Toponymy
Place-names
Geographical features
Antarctica

Relation

The information is also available at the following address: http://www3.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZE

Source

J12-002
J12-003

Language

English

Type

Dictionaries