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
Barkov Glacier (USA) 71° 46' 00.0" S 10° 27' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 122198 Place ID: 904

Glacier draining NE between Mount Dallmann and the central part of Shcherbakov Range, in the Orvin Mountains, Queen Maud Land. First photographed and roughly plotted by the GerAE, 1938-39. Mapped from air photos and surveys by NorAE, 1956-60; remapped by SovAE, 1960-61, and named after Soviet geographer A.S. Barkov.

Barkova, lednik (RUS) 71° 45' 00.0" S 10° 28' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 116967 Place ID: 904

Barkovbreen (NOR) 71° 48' 00.0" S 10° 25' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 114855 Place ID: 904

Glacier, about 8 km long, between Dallmannfjellet and Småskeidrista E-most in Orvinfjella, Fimbulheimen. After A.S. Barkov, Russian geographer.

Ommundsen Island (AUS) 66° 19' 49.4" S 110° 23' 06.0" E Island
Name ID: 904 Place ID: 10631

An island, just west of Midgley Island, Windmill Islands. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after A. Ommundsen, a member of the 1958 Wilkes party.  

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