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
Craft Glacier (RUS) 72° 15' 00.0" S 101° 25' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 117556 Place ID: 3076

Craft Glacier (USA) 72° 12' 00.0" S 101° 22' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 123896 Place ID: 3076

Valley glacier about 5 mi long, lying W of Hendersin Knob on Thurston Island and flowing S to Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound. First delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in December 1946. Named by US-ACAN for Ens. Charles Craft, USN, helicopter pilot on USS Glacier who made exploratory flights at Thurston Island in February 1960.

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