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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| Niépce Glacier (GBR) | 65° 10' 00.0" S | 63° 23' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 110354
Place ID: 10260
flowing N into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833), French physicist, the first man to produce a permanent photographic record, in the period 1816-29, and who, with J.L.M. Daguerre (Daguerre Glacier, q.v.), invented the daguerrotype process of photography perfected in 1839 (APC, 1960, p.6). |
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| Niépce Glacier (USA) | 65° 07' 00.0" S | 63° 22' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 129407
Place ID: 10260
Glacier which joins with Daguerre Glacier and flows into Lauzanne Cove, Flandres Bay, on the W coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1954. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Joseph N. Niepce (1765-1833), French physicist, the first man to produce a permanent photographic record, 1816-29, who, with J.L.M. Daguerre, invented the daguerreotype process of photography perfected in 1839. |
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