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
Akebono Glacier (USA) 68° 07' 00.0" S 42° 53' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 121644 Place ID: 149

Glacier flowing to the coast between Cape Hinode and Akebono Rock in Queen Maud Land. Mapped from surveys and air photos by JARE, 1957-62, who applied the name.

Akebono Hyôga (JPN) 68° 08' 00.0" S 42° 54' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 112283 Place ID: 149

A glacier flowing northwestward just south of Akebono Iwa. Mapped from air photos (1962) by JARE, and named Akebono Hyôga (dawn glacier). Topographic map on a scale of 1:25000 was made from surveys by JARE, 1972 and 1978. A small unnamed coastal rock exposes just south of the glacier.

Daggrybreen (NOR) 68° 06' 00.0" S 42° 52' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 114982 Place ID: 149

Glacier W of Daggryfjellet, about 50 km W of Carstensfjella, Kronprins Olav Kyst. D.=the dawn glacier. Norwegian translation of the original Japanese name Akebono Hyôga.

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