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
Healy Trough (NZL) 77° 33' 00.0" S 160° 52' 00.0" E
Name ID: 135658 Place ID: 17761

A primary elongate trough in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, extending diagonally SW-NE across the E part of the feature. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Terry R. Healy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, N.Z., who, with John Shaw, published observations on the formation of the Labyrinth following a visit in the 1975-76 season.

Healy Trough (USA) 77° 33' 00.0" S 160° 52' 00.0" E
Name ID: 136084 Place ID: 17761

A primary elongate trough in the Labyrinth of Wright Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, extending diagonally SW-NE across the E part of the feature. Named by US-ACAN (2004) after Terry R. Healy, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, N.Z., who, with John Shaw, published observations on the formation of the Labyrinth following a visit in the 1975-76 season.

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