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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Alison Ice Stream (USA) | 73° 55' 00.0" S | 82° 04' 00.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 135848
Place ID: 17442
Ice Stream about 8 mi long flowing into Eltanin Bay S of Wirth Peninsula. Named by US-ACAN after Alison Cook, British Antarctic Survey, computer specialist, part of the USA-UK cooperative project to compile Glaciological and Coastal-Change Maps of the Antarctic Peninsula in the late 1990s and early 2000s. |
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