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
Fahnestock Glacier (USA) 77° 53' 00.0" S 149° 41' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 136004 Place ID: 17469

Glacier about 30 mi long draining to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN after Mark A. Fahnestock, faculty, University of New Hampshire, field and theoretical researcher in Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Stream area from the 1980s to the present.

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