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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| Palestrina Glacier (GBR) | 69° 23' 00.0" S | 71° 25' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 110478
Place ID: 10837
flowing SW from Russian Gap into Lazarev Bay between Havre Mountains and Lassus Mountains, NW Alexander Island, was photographed from the air by RARE, 23 December 1947, when the name Tufts College Valley (AGS, map, 1948) or Tufts Valley (Ronne, 1948b, map p.356) was applied collectively to this feature, Tufts Pass (q.v.) and part of Nichols Snowfield (q.v.); mapped by FIDS in 1959 from RARE air photographs; in association with the names of composers in this area, named after Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-94), Italian composer (APC, 1961, p.3; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978); further delineated from US LANDSAT imagery of February 1975. |
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| Palestrina Glacier (USA) | 69° 21' 00.0" S | 71° 35' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 129801
Place ID: 10837
Glacier in the N part of Alexander Island, 11 mi long and 8 mi wide, flowing W from Nichols Snowfield into Lazarev Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by the RARE, 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960. Named by the UK-APC for Giovanni da Palestrina (1525-1594), Italian composer. |
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