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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| Bindschadler Glacier (NZL) | 77° 57' 37.8" S | 162° 09' 41.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 139620
Place ID: 1335
A glacier in the northwest part of Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing northwards between Table Mountain and Platform Spur to join Emmanuel Glacier via a number of small steep icefalls. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MG09 |
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| Bindschadler Glacier (USA) | 77° 58' 00.0" S | 162° 09' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122533
Place ID: 1335
A glacier in the NW part of Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing N between Table Mountain and Platform Spur to join Emmanuel Glacier. Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after glaciologist Robert A. Bindschadler of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; from 1983 a principal investigator for USARP studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet including dynamics of ice streams in the Siple Coast area, their interaction with the Ross Ice Shelf, and the role of polar ice sheets in global climate change. |
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| Mount Gleeson (AUS) | 71° 14' 12.0" S | 66° 05' 16.0" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1335
Place ID: 5381
A mountain peak with a rock ridge extending south-east for about 4 km. A large area of snow drift has accumulated on the north-east side of the ridge. The feature is situated about five km west of Mount Woinarski in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956 and 1960. Named after T.K. Gleeson, weather observer-in-charge at Wilkes in 1965. |
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