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Antarctica ID: | 8195 |
Name: | Kramer Rocks |
Class: | Island |
Latitude: | -65.4333333 |
Longitude: | -64.0333333 |
Description: | Two rocks lying in the N part of Beascochea Bay, 3 mi SE of Cape Perez on the W coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for J.G.H. Kramer, Austrian army physician who independently recognized scurvy as a nutritional deficiency disease and showed how it could be prevented or cured, in about 1737. |
BGN: | 01-JAN-71 |
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