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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| Beaver Glacier (NZL) | 83° 24' 00.0" S | 169° 30' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112761
Place ID: 1069
A small glacier 12 miles long and approximately 2 to 4 miles wide flowing from the coastal mountains of the Queen Alexandra Range immediately north west of Mt Fox, into the Ross Ice Shelf 5 miles south east of Richards Inlet. Named for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition Beaver, "City of Auckland" which was handed over to the RNZAF in 1958, and which crashed in this area in January 1960 while the 1959-60 Geological and Survey Expedition was being air-lifted from the Ross Ice Shelf to the edge of the Polar Plateau. Named by the NZGSAE, 1959-60. |
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| Beaver Glacier (USA) | 83° 24' 00.0" S | 169° 30' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122331
Place ID: 1069
A glacier, I5 mi long, draining the coastal mountains of Queen Alexandra Range just NW of Mount Fox and entering Ross Ice Shelf at McCann Point. Named by the NZGSAE (1959-60) after the Beaver aircraft City of Auckland, which crashed in this area in January 1960. |
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| Edwards Islands (AUS) | 66° 51' 13.4" S | 50° 29' 52.6" E | Island |
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Name ID: 1069
Place ID: 4094
A group of islands in Amundsen Bay about 7 km west of Mount Oldfield, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after T. Edwards, assistant diesel mechanic at Wilkes in 1960. |
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