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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| Breguet Glacier (GBR) | 64° 11' 00.0" S | 60° 39' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107940
Place ID: 1811
flowing W into Cierva Cove, Hughes Bay, Danco Coast, was called Glaciar Grande (Di Lena, 1956, map p.95); photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57 and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Portal Point", 1957-59; in association with the names of pioneers of aviation grouped in this area, named after the brothers Louis (1880-1955) and Jacques (1881-1939) Breguet, French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man in vertical flight, in 1907 (APC, 1960, p.3; BA chart 3560, 7.iv.1961). Glaciar Breguet (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9) |
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| Breguet Glacier (USA) | 64° 10' 00.0" S | 60° 48' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122904
Place ID: 1811
Glacier flowing into Cierva Cove S of Gregory Glacier, on the W coast of Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Louis (1880-1955) and Jacques (1881-1939) Breguet, French aircraft designers who built and flew the first helicopter to carry a man, in vertical flight. |
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| Breguet, glaciar (ARG) | 64° 11' 00.0" S | 60° 39' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 100342 Place ID: 1811 | |||
| Van Hulssen Nunatak (AUS) | 67° 59' 20.4" S | 62° 44' 53.4" E | Nunatak |
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Name ID: 1811
Place ID: 15301
An isolated nunatak about 1,330 m above sea level, about 11 km south of the South Masson Range. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). F. Van Hulssen, technical officer (ionosphere) at Mawson in 1959 |
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