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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| Northwind Glacier (NZL) | 76° 40' 00.0" S | 161° 18' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 114023
Place ID: 10407
A large glacier, one of the major sources of the Fry Glacier, flowing north-east from a high névé, south-west and west of Flagstaff Mountain. A lobe of the Grenville Valley. The glacier has an ice divide with the north-west source of the Benson Glacier. Named by the Northern Survey Party of the NZTAE, 1956-57, for the USS Northwind, one of the main American convoy of vessels into McMurdo Sound in 1956-57. |
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| Northwind Glacier (USA) | 76° 40' 00.0" S | 161° 18' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 129502
Place ID: 10407
A large glacier, one of the major sources of the Fry Glacier, in the Convoy Range, Victoria Land. The glacier drains the W part of Flight Deck Neve and flows N between Elkhorn Ridge and Sunker Nunataks to Fry Glacier. A lobe of the glacier flows W a short distance into the mouth of Greenville Valley. Named by the N.Z. Northern Survey Party (1956-57) of the CTAE after the USCGC Northwind, an icebreaker in the main American convoy into McMurdo Sound that season. |
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