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)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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Withrow Glacier (NZL) | 77° 24' 55.5" S | 156° 30' 50.7" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 140103
Place ID: 16170
A glacier on King Edward VII Land, flowing northwest into Bartlett Inlet just east of Cape Colbeck. |
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Withrow Glacier (USA) | 77° 24' 00.0" S | 156° 25' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 133808
Place ID: 16170
A glacier on Edward VII Peninsula, flowing NW into Bartlett Inlet just E of Cape Colbeck. Mapped from surveys by the USGS and U.S. Navy air photos (1959-65). Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. W.H. Withrow, USN, of the staff of the Commander, Naval Support Force, Antarctica, who was officer in charge of Detachment One at Christchurch, N.Z., 1965-66. |
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