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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Albanus Glacier (NZL) | 85° 52' 00.0" S | 151° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 112618
Place ID: 167
A glacier, 25 mi long, flowing W along the S side of Tapley Mountains to enter Scott Glacier just N of Mount Zanuck, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Albanus Phillips, Jr., manufacturer of Cambridge, MD, a patron of the ByrdAE of 1928-30 and 1933-35. |
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Albanus Glacier (RUS) | 86° 00' 00.0" S | 142° 30' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 116770 Place ID: 167 | |||
Albanus Glacier (USA) | 85° 52' 00.0" S | 151° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 121656
Place ID: 167
A glacier, 25 mi long, flowing W along the S side of Tapley Mountains to enter Scott Glacier just N of Mount Zanuck, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered in December 1934 by the ByrdAE geological party under Quin Blackburn, and named by Byrd for Albanus Phillips, Jr., manufacturer of Cambridge, MD, a patron of the ByrdAE of 1928-30 and 1933-35. |
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Watson Bluff (AUS) | 66° 25' 00.1" S | 98° 57' 00.0" E | Bluff |
Name ID: 167
Place ID: 15775
The largest of the rock exposures on David Island, Queen Mary Land, which is a bluff, about 227 m above sea level, at the eastern tip of the island. Discovered by the Western Base Party of AAE (1911-14). Named by Sir Douglas Mawson after A.D. Watson, a member of the expedition. |
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