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
Sal Glacier (USA) 72° 03' 00.0" S 25° 31' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 131131 Place ID: 12614

Glacier, 7 mi long, flowing N between Salen Mountain and Mount Bergersen in the Sor Rondane Mountains. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers in 1957 from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named Salbreen (the saddle glacier), probably for its association with Salen Mountain (q.v.).

Salbreen (NOR) 72° 06' 00.0" S 25° 33' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 115875 Place ID: 12614

Glacier on the E side of Salen in the middle part of Sør-Rondane. From neighbouring name: Salen.

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