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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| Silk Glacier (AUS) | 81° 09' 00.0" S | 158° 55' 00.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 438
Place ID: 13274
A glacier about 22 km long, flowing eastward from the slopes of Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to Nursery Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. |
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| Silk Glacier (USA) | 81° 09' 00.0" S | 158° 55' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 131606
Place ID: 13274
A glacier, 10 mi long, draining the E slopes of the Churchill Mountains between Mount Frost and Mount Zinkovich to enter Nursery Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Cdt. P.R.H. Silk, RNZN, commanding officer of HMNZS Endeavour II in Antarctic waters, 1963-64. |
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