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
Quonset Glacier (USA) 85° 19' 00.0" S 127° 05' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 130496 Place ID: 11798

A glacier about 20 mi long which drains the N slopes of Wisconsin Range between Mount LeSchack and Ruseski Buttress and trends WNW to enter the N side of Davisville Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1960-64. Named by US-ACAN after the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, home base of Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6).

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