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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| Acosta Glacier (USA) | 71° 58' 00.0" S | 100° 55' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 135839
Place ID: 17439
Glacier about 2 mi long flowing N from Thurston Island just E of Dyer Point. Named by US-ACAN after Alex V. Acosta, USGS, Flagstaff, Arizona, Computer and graphic specialist, part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scale Landsat TM image maps of the Siple Coast area in the 1990s. |
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