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
Fry Glacier (NZL) 76° 38' 00.0" S 162° 18' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 113357 Place ID: 4999

A long deep outlet glacier, about 2 miles wide, with vertical smooth rock walls, which merges with Albrecht Penck Glacier about 25 miles south of Nordenskjold Ice Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land. First charted by the BAE, 1907-09, which named it for A M Fry, of Bristol, England, a contributor to the expedition.

Fry Glacier (RUS) 76° 35' 00.0" S 161° 30' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 118090 Place ID: 4999

Fry Glacier (USA) 76° 38' 00.0" S 162° 18' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 125437 Place ID: 4999

A glacier draining the slopes at the NE corner of the Convoy Range and flowing along the S end of the Kirkwood Range into Tripp Bay, Victoria Land. First charted by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for A.M. Fry, a contributor to the expedition.

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