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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| Penck Glacier (RUS) | 77° 57' 00.0" S | 34° 42' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 119896 Place ID: 11050 | |||
| Penck Glacier (GBR) | 77° 57' 00.0" S | 34° 42' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 110555
Place ID: 11050
flowing N into Lerchenfeld Glacier (q.v.), Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, was roughly mapped in c. 77°55'S, 34°55'W by GAE, 1911 12, in January 1912, and named Penck Gletscher after Albrecht Penck (1858-1945), German geographer and geomorphologist (Brückner Glacier, q.v.); Professor of Geography, University of Vienna, 1885-1906; initiator of the 1:1000000 map of the world (Przybyllok, 1913, map p.3). Perick [sic] Glacier (USAAF chart [LR 74], 1942). Penck Glacier (USAAF chart [LR 75], 1943; [in 77°55'S 34°42'W] USBGN, 1969, p.148; [co ordinates corrected] USGBN, 1980, p.649; APC, 1982, p.3). Lednik Penka (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Penck (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). The glacier was delineated from US LANDSAT imagery of 27 January 1973. |
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| Penck Glacier (USA) | 77° 57' 00.0" S | 34° 42' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 129981
Place ID: 11050
A small glacier flowing northward along the west side of Bertrab Glacier to Vahsel Bay. Discovered by the GerAE, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner, who named this feature for German geographer Albrecht Penck. |
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| Penckgletscher (DEU) | 77° 53' 00.0" S | 34° 48' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107042
Place ID: 11050
A small outlet glacier originated in Touchdown Hills, flowing between the two nunataks of Bertrabnunatakker and Belgrano II Station, confluencing with Lerchenfeldgletscher and Schweitzergletscher and draining into Herzog-Ernst-Bucht, Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land, Coats Land, Weddell Sea. Discovered during Deutsche Antarktische Expedition 1911/12 under Wilhelm Filchner. |
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