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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| Totten Glacier (AUS) | 66° 50' 00.0" S | 116° 20' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 549
Place ID: 14847
A glacier marked by a prominent glacier tongue on the western part of the Sabrina Coast of Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by the USACAN after George M Totten of the sloop Vincennes of the US Exploring Expedition (1939-42), under Wilkes. |
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| Totten Glacier (RUS) | 66° 40' 00.0" S | 116° 10' 00.0" E | Glacier |
| Name ID: 121016 Place ID: 14847 | |||
| Totten Glacier (USA) | 67° 00' 00.0" S | 116° 20' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 132806
Place ID: 14847
A massive glacier about 40 mi long and 20 mi wide. It drains northeastward from the continental ice but turns northwestward at the coast where it terminates in a prominent tongue close east of Cape Waldron. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by US-ACAN for George M. Totten, Passed Midshipman on the Wilkes with correction of the survey data obtained by the expedition. |
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