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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| Talbot Glacier (GBR) | 65° 15' 00.0" S | 63° 13' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 111503
Place ID: 14397
flowing N into Étienne Fjord, Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77), English inventor, 1839-41, of the first practical photographic process on paper, perfected and called calotype (APC, 1960, p.7). |
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| Talbot Glacier (USA) | 65° 12' 00.0" S | 63° 14' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 132455
Place ID: 14397
Glacier flowing into Etienne Fjord, Flandres Bay, on the W coast of Graham Land. First charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for William H.F. Talbot (1800-77), English inventor of the first practical photographic process on paper, perfected and called calotype in 1839-41. |
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