Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Strange Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Strange 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 SE into the SW arm of Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, was surveyed in its lower reaches by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Donald Lee Strange, USN, hospital corpsman, "South Pole Station", winter 1964 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981).
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