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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| Alvarez Glacier (NZL) | 70° 53' 00.0" S | 162° 20' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112643
Place ID: 274
A tributary glacier in the Explorers Range, Bowers Mountains, flowing from the SW side of Stanwix Peak into Rennick Glacier, to the N of Sheehan Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Jose A. Alvarez, Argentine Navy, an IGY Weather Central meteorologist at Little America V in 1957. |
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| Alvarez Glacier (USA) | 70° 53' 00.0" S | 162° 20' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 121744
Place ID: 274
A tributary glacier in the Explorers Range, Bowers Mountains, flowing from the SW side of Stanwix Peak into Rennick Glacier, to the N of Sheehan Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Jose A. Alvarez, Argentine Navy, an IGY Weather Central meteorologist at Little America V in 1957. |
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| Cape Streten (AUS) | 66° 49' 00.1" S | 49° 15' 00.0" E | Cape |
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Name ID: 274
Place ID: 14137
An ice-cape on the north-eastern part of Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in November, 1956. Named after Neil A.Streten, meteorologist at Mawson in 1960. |
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