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
Edisto Glacier (AUS) 66° 10' 00.1" S 100° 37' 00.1" E Glacier
Name ID: 456 Place ID: 4077

A glacier tongue which branches off the Scott Glacier in Queen Mary Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47)

Edisto Ice Tongue (RUS) 66° 11' 00.0" S 100° 35' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 117840 Place ID: 4077

Edisto Ice Tongue (USA) 66° 10' 00.0" S 100° 40' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 124681 Place ID: 4077

An ice tongue along the northwest margin of Bunger Hills where it occupies the southwestern portion of Edisto Channel, in the Highjump Archipelago. The ice tongue is a seaward extension of the flow of Apfel Glacier as well as part of the main flow of Scott Glacier. Mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by US-ACAN in association with Edisto Channel.

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