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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| Alberich Glacier (NZL) | 77° 35' 50.0" S | 161° 37' 24.7" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 139328
Place ID: 169
A small glacier that drains west from Junction Knob toward the east flank of Sykes Glacier, in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF08 |
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| Alberich Glacier (USA) | 77° 36' 00.0" S | 161° 36' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 121657
Place ID: 169
A small glacier that drains west from Junction Knob toward the east flank of Sykes Glacier, in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land. It is one in a group of features in the range named by NZ-APC mainly from Norse mythology. In German legend, Alberich is the all-powerful king of the dwarfs and chief of the Nibelungen. |
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| Big Brother Bluff (AUS) | 71° 28' 00.1" S | 159° 49' 59.9" E | Bluff |
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Name ID: 169
Place ID: 1311
A high granite bluff on the western side of the Daniels Range in Oates Land. This feature is visible from 95 km north and from many points across the Rennick Glacier (Ross Dependency). Named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963-64) from the saying in George Orwell's novel 1984. |
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