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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| Stubb Glacier (GBR) | 65° 40' 00.0" S | 62° 20' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 111443
Place ID: 14162
flowing E into Scar Inlet between Mount Queequeg and Tashtego Point, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in its lower reaches in November 1947 and in its upper reaches in September 1955; in association with names from Moby Dick or the whale in this area, named after Stubb, Second Mate in Pequod (APC, 1958, p.6; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). |
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| Stubb Glacier (USA) | 65° 41' 00.0" S | 62° 10' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 132281
Place ID: 14162
Glacier 11 mi long, flowing E into Scar Inlet between Mount Queequeg and Tashtego Point, on the E coast of Graham Land. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the FIDS in 1947, and the upper reaches were surveyed in 1955. Named by the UK-APC in 1956 after the second mate on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. |
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