Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Northwind Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Northwind Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large glacier, one of the major sources of the Fry Glacier, flowing north-east from a high névé, south-west and west of Flagstaff Mountain. A lobe of the Grenville Valley. The glacier has an ice divide with the north-west source of the Benson Glacier. Named by the Northern Survey Party of the NZTAE, 1956-57, for the USS Northwind, one of the main American convoy of vessels into McMurdo Sound in 1956-57.
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