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United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
(or
UK-APC
) is a
United Kingdom
government committee, part of the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the
British Antarctic Territory
(BAT) and the
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
(SGSSI). Such names are formally approved by the Commissioners of the BAT and SGSSI respectively, and published in the BAT Gazetteer and the SGSSI Gazetteer maintained by the Committee. The BAT names are published in the international
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
maintained by
SCAR
, too.
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