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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| Dinsmoor Glacier (GBR) | 64° 24' 00.0" S | 60° 07' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 108514
Place ID: 3657
flowing E from Detroit Plateau into Edgeworth Glacier, Nordenskjöld Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1960-61; in association with the names of pioneers of overland mechanical transport grouped in this area, named after Charles Dinsmoor, American engineer, of Warren, Pa, and inventor in 1886 of the "endless tracking machine", a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, which was first made commercially by Holt Manufacturing Company of Stockton, Cal., in 1906 (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). |
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| Dinsmoor Glacier (USA) | 64° 22' 00.0" S | 59° 59' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 124368
Place ID: 3657
A glacier flowing E from the S edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the NE of Mount Elliott. Mapped from surveys by FIDS (1960-61). Named by UK-APC for Charles Dinsmoor of Warren, PA, who invented the "endless tracking machine," a forerunner of modern tracked vehicles, in 1886; first manufactured commercially by Holt Manufacturing Co. of Stockton, CA, in 1906. |
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