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)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Stapleton Glacier (USA) | 72° 56' 00.0" S | 102° 30' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 136359
Place ID: 17562
Glacier about 6 mi long flowing E from King Peninsula just N of Morelli Glacier. Named by US-ACAN after Jo Anne Stapleton, USGS, Reston, Virginia, geographer and map specialist, participated in Antarctic map production from the 1980s to the present, part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scale Landsat TM image maps of the Siple Coast area. |
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