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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Starbuck Glacier (GBR) | 65° 37' 00.0" S | 62° 25' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 111369
Place ID: 13938
flowing E into Larsen Ice Shelf on N side of Mount Queequeg, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in November 1947; in association with names of characters from Moby Dick or the whale in this area, named after Starbuck, First Mate in Pequod (APC, 1958, p.20; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961); further surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1963-64. |
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Starbuck Glacier (USA) | 65° 38' 00.0" S | 62° 09' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 132099
Place ID: 13938
Glacier 15 mi long, flowing E and entering Scar Inlet immediately N of Mount Queequeg, on the E coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and partially photographed by the FIDS in 1947. The entire glacier was photographed by the FIDASE in 1955-56, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS in 1957. Named by the UK-APC after the first mate on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. |
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