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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| Svendsen Glacier (AUS) | 70° 22' 59.9" S | 159° 55' 00.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 555
Place ID: 14300
A glacier partly in the Ross Dependency, about 13 km south-east of the Robilliard Glacier in Oates Land. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named after K.G. Svendsen, USARP geomagnetician at McMurdo station in the summer of 1967-68. |
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| Svendsen Glacier (USA) | 70° 21' 00.0" S | 160° 00' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 132388
Place ID: 14300
A meandering glacier, 13 mi long, in the Usarp Mountains. It flows northeastward from Mount Marzolf and emerges between McCain Bluff and Lenfant Bluff onto an ice piedmont just west of the terminus of Rennick Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Kendall L. Svendsen, USARP geomagnetist at McMurdo Station, 1967-68. |
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