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
Wood Glacier (NZL) 72° 29' 00.0" S 166° 42' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 114755 Place ID: 16192

A glacier 15 miles long situated between the Croll Glacier and the plateau spillway feeding the Trafalgar Glacier. Named by the Southern Party of the NZFMCAE, 1962-63, after B L Wood, geologist member of the NZGSAE, 1957-58.

Wood Glacier (USA) 72° 29' 00.0" S 166° 42' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 133828 Place ID: 16192

A tributary glacier flowing SE and entering Trafalgar Glacier just E of Mount McDonald in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land. It shares a common saddle with Lensen Glacier which flows northward. Named by the southern party of NZFMCAE, 1962-63, for B.L. Wood, geologist member of NZGSAE, 1957-58, which also worked in this general area.

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