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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| Eldred Glacier (RUS) | 61° 58' 00.0" S | 58° 17' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 117865 Place ID: 4157 | |||
| Eldred Glacier (GBR) | 61° 58' 52.8" S | 58° 13' 17.8" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 108657
Place ID: 4157
N coast of King George Island, E of Potts Peak, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of nineteenth-century sealers in this area, named after Capt. Andrew J. Eldred, Master of the sealing ship Thomas Hunt from Stonington, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1873-74, 1875-76, 1878-79 and 1879-80, in which last season he took part in the unsuccessful search for the sealing ship Charles Shearer (Shearer Stack, q.v.) (APC, 1960, p.7; DOS 610 sheet W 62 58, 1968). Lednik Eldreda (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl. 175). |
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| Eldred Glacier (USA) | 61° 58' 00.0" S | 58° 16' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 124748
Place ID: 4157
Glacier 2.5 mi long, flowing to the N coast of King George Island immediately E of Potts Peak, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Andrew J. Eldred, Master of the sealing vessel Thomas Hunt from Stonington, CT, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1873-74, 1875-76, 1878-79 and 1879-80. During the latter season he took part in the unsuccessful search for the Charles Shearer. |
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