Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
O'Hara Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
O'Hara Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
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 glacier flowing north from a common saddle catchment area with McElroy Glacier (which flows south-southeast) into the south side of Yule Bay, just west of Ackroyd Point, in Victoria Land.
Mapped by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Norbert W. O'Hara, a member of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) party which conducted studies of the Ross Ice Shelf, 1965-66.
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