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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| Quartermain Glacier (GBR) | 67° 01' 00.0" S | 65° 09' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 110760
Place ID: 11764
flowing E into Mill Inlet, Foyn Coast, on N side of Mount Kennett, was surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1963-64; in association with the names of Antarctic historians grouped in this area, named after Leslie Bowden Quartermain (1895-1973), New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and author of South to the Pole. The early history of the Ross Sea sector (London, 1967) (APC, 1977, p.27). |
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| Quartermain Glacier (USA) | 67° 01' 00.0" S | 65° 09' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 130468
Place ID: 11764
A well-defined, highly-crevassed glacier on the N side of Fricker Glacier, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet on the E coast of Graham Land. Named by UK-APC for Leslie B. Quartermain (Quartermain Mountains, Quartermain Point, q.v.), New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and author of South to the Pole. The early history of the Ross Sea Sector (London, 1967). |
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