Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Aphrodite Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Aphrodite Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing N into Bowman Inlet, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by Wil- kins, 20 December 1928 (Joerg, 1937, p.434, Fig. 1), by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, p.434, Fig. 2), by FIDS, 14 August 1947, and by RARE, 22 December 1947; surveyed from the ground by FIDS from Stonington Island in December 1958 and November 1960; named after Aphrodite, the goddess of love, in association with other names in this area taken from Greek mythology (APC, 1962, p.4; DOS 610 sheet W 68 64, 1963). Glaciar Aphrodite (Argentina. AA, 1991 p.3)
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