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
Ragotzkie Glacier (AUS) 80° 01' 59.9" S 157° 49' 59.9" E Glacier
Name ID: 518 Place ID: 11830

A glacier about 17 km long, flowing northward along the western side of Mount Aldrich and coalescing with other glaciers to flow into Hatherton Glacier to the south-west of Junction Spur. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

Ragotzkie Glacier (NZL) 80° 03' 23.1" S 157° 51' 30.4" E Glacier
Name ID: 140380 Place ID: 11830

A glacier about 28km long, flowing northward along the western side of Mount Aldrich and then northwest, coalescing with other glaciers to flow into Hatherton Glacier to the southwest of Junction Spur. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MN05

Ragotzkie Glacier (USA) 80° 02' 00.0" S 157° 45' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 130519 Place ID: 11830

A glacier in the Britannia Range, about 10 mi long, flowing northward along the west side of Mount Aldrich and coalescing with other north-flowing glaciers which enter the Hatherton Glacier to the southwest of Junction Spur. Named by US-ACAN for Robert A. Ragotzkie, project director for USARP studies of lakes in the ice-free valleys. He made personal studies in Victoria Land in the 1962-63 season.

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