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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| Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue (NZL) | 76° 11' 00.0" S | 162° 45' 00.0" E | Tongue |
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Name ID: 114013
Place ID: 10350
A glacier tongue, about 5 miles wide, forming an extension of Mawson Glacier along the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, at which time it extended about 20 miles into the Ross Sea. Scott named it for Dr Otto Nordenskjold, the Swedish geographer who led an expedition to the Antarctic in 1901. This feature had become well established by the name Nordenskjold Ice Tongue prior to initiation of systematic application of common specific names to a glacier and its glacier tongue. Although this feature is a glacier tongue, the generic term, ice tongue is retained in the name to reduce ambiguity. |
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| Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue (RUS) | 76° 14' 00.0" S | 163° 00' 00.0" E | Tongue |
| Name ID: 119678 Place ID: 10350 | |||
| Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue (USA) | 76° 11' 00.0" S | 162° 45' 00.0" E | Tongue |
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Name ID: 129467
Place ID: 10350
A broad glacier tongue extending eastward from the Mawson Glacier into the Ross Sea. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Otto Nordenskjold, Swedish geographer who led an expedition to Antarctica in 1901. This feature had become well established by the name Nordenskjold Ice Tongue prior to initiation of systematic application of common specific names to a glacier and its glacier tongue. Although this feature is a glacier tongue, the generic term ice tongue is retained in the name to reduce ambiguity. |
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