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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| Baxter Glacier (NZL) | 76° 40' 00.0" S | 161° 51' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112751
Place ID: 1018
A prominent glacier beginning as an ice fall from Waterhouse névé between Flagship Mountain and Mt Davidson and joining the Fry Glacier near the coast. Named after the late James K Baxter, poet. |
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| Baxter Glacier (USA) | 76° 40' 00.0" S | 161° 51' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122288
Place ID: 1018
A glacier nurtured by icefalls from Flight Deck Neve, flowing NE between Flagship Mountain and Mount Davidson to enter Fry Glacier, in Convoy Range, Victoria Land. Named by a 1976-77 VUWAE field party after James K. Baxter (1926-72), New Zealand poet and social critic. |
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| Stein Islands (AUS) | 69° 40' 48.0" S | 75° 44' 30.8" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1018
Place ID: 13979
Two rock islands in the Publications Ice Shelf on the Ingrid Christensen Coast, about 13 km south-east of the SxIslands. Mapped from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936) and called Steinane (The Stones) by Norwegian cartographers. |
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