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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| Willey Glacier (GBR) | 70° 25' 00.0" S | 67° 51' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 111953
Place ID: 16070
flowing SW from Creswick Gap into George VI Sound, following surveys by BAS, 1962-72, was named after Lawrence Edward Willey (b. 1943), BAS geologist, "Stonington Island" and "Fossil Bluff", 1967-69, and summer 1972-73 (APC, 1977, p.35; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 2-DOS 1984). |
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| Willey Glacier (USA) | 70° 25' 00.0" S | 67° 50' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 133720
Place ID: 16070
A heavily-crevassed glacier N of Creswick Peaks in Palmer Land, flowing W from Creswick Gap into George VI Sound. Named by UK-APC for Laurence E. Willey, BAS geologist at Fossil Bluff and Stonington Island stations, 1966-69 and 1973. |
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