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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| Cosgrove Ice Shelf (RUS) | 73° 32' 00.0" S | 100° 45' 00.0" W | Ice shelf |
| Name ID: 117548 Place ID: 3021 | |||
| Cosgrove Ice Shelf (USA) | 73° 34' 00.0" S | 100° 22' 00.0" W | Ice shelf |
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Name ID: 123845
Place ID: 3021
An ice shelf 35 mi long and 25 mi wide, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between King and Canisteo Peninsulas. Mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Jerome R. Cosgrove, USNR, asst. communications officer on the staff of the Commander, USN Support Force, Antarctica, during USN OpDFrz, 1967 and 1968. |
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