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
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.

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.

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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