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
Roos Glacier (USA) 75° 17' 00.0" S 110° 57' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 130929 Place ID: 12347

A steep glacier that drains the NW slopes of Mount Murphy on Walgreen Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Named by US-ACAN after S. Edward Roos, oceanographer with the Byrd Antarctic Expeditions of 1928-30 and 1933-35.

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