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
Bowers Glacier (NZL) 72° 37' 00.0" S 169° 03' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 112850 Place ID: 1677

Glacier in the Victory Mountains flowing northward, east of Elder Glacier to Tucker Glacier. Named by USACAN for Chester H Bowers, meteorologist, senior US representative at Hallet Station during winter of 1962.

Bowers Glacier (USA) 72° 37' 00.0" S 169° 03' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 122794 Place ID: 1677

Glacier at the W side of Mount Northhampton in the Victory Mountains, flowing N into Tucker Glacier, Victoria Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Chester H. Bowers, meteorologist, senior U.S. representative at Hallett Station, 1962.

Mount Flett (AUS) 68° 09' 00.0" S 49° 12' 00.0" E Mountain
Name ID: 1677 Place ID: 4729

One of the Nye Mountains, Enderby Land, about 19 km ESE of Amphitheatre Lake. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after A Flett, radio officer at Wilkes in 1959.

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