Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Barré Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Barré Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Channel glacier about 5 mi wide and 5 mi long, flowing N from the continental ice to the coast close E of Cape Pepin. Delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for Michel Barre, leader of the FrAE wintering party of 1951-52, whose party extended reconnaissance of the coastal features as far westward as this glacier.
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