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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| Cambridge Glacier (NZL) | 76° 57' 00.0" S | 160° 31' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112918
Place ID: 2224
A wide sheet-like glacier lying between Convoy Range on the east, and Mount Brooke and its associated hills and ridges on the west. It drains slowly south to join the Mackay Glacier between Gateway Nunatak and Mount Bergen. Surveyed by the Northern Survey Party of the NZTAE, 1956-58, in November-December 1957. Named by them after Cambridge University, where a great many of the various Antarctic scientific reports have been written, and also associated with the names Allan, Coombs and Odell immediately west. |
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| Cambridge Glacier (USA) | 76° 57' 00.0" S | 160° 31' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 123228
Place ID: 2224
A wide sheetlike glacier between the Convoy Range and Coombs Hills, draining S into the Mackay Glacier between Mount Bergen and Gateway Nunatak. Surveyed in 1957 by the N.Z. Northern Survey Party of the CTAE, 1956-58. Named by them after Cambridge University, where many of the various Antarctic scientific reports have been written. |
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| Tonagh Promontory (AUS) | 69° 26' 15.0" S | 76° 00' 53.0" E | Promontory |
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Name ID: 2224
Place ID: 14795
One of two promontories to the south-west of Stornes Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37, and called Storneskloa (Big Cape Claw). |
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