Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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Antevs Glacier (GBR) | 67° 20' 00.0" S | 66° 49' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 107536
Place ID: 425
on Arrowsmith Peninsula flowing N into Müller Ice Shelf (q.v.), was surveyed by FIDS from Detaille Island and Horseshoe Island , 1955-57, and named North Heim Glacier (Heim Glacier, q.v.) (APC, 1959a, p.9; BA, 1961, p.189). Heim Glacier, North (BA, 1961, p.433). Following air photography by FIDASE in 1956-57, the feature was renamed Antevs Glacier, after Ernst Valdemar Antevs (b. 1888), American glacial geologist, in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area ([as including the ice shelf] APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; [as a separate feature] BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1986, p.3). Anteus [sic] Glacier (BA, 1974, p.200). |
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Antevs Glacier (USA) | 67° 19' 00.0" S | 66° 49' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 121852
Place ID: 425
Glacier on Arrowsmith Peninsula, Graham Land, flowing N between Seue Peaks and Boyle Mountains into Muller Ice Shelf, Lallemand Fjord. Named by UK-APC in 1960 after Ernst V. Antevs, American glacial geologist. |
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Antevs, glaciar (ARG) | 67° 13' 00.0" S | 66° 50' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 100101
Place ID: 425
Al SW de bahía Lallemand, península Arrowsmith, costa occidental de la península Antártica. Antiguamente era llamado "North Heim" y se le reconocía un sector Norte u otro Sur. Posteriormente, y a solicitud de la USBGN se distinguieron los dos glaciares, reteniendo "Heim" para el del N y asignando un nuevo nombre para el glaciar del Sur: Antevs. El topónimo recuerda a Ernest Valdemar Antevs, nacido en 1888, geólogo norteamericano experto en glaciares. SHN carta H-716. |
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Clemence Fjord (AUS) | 69° 23' 30.0" S | 76° 17' 00.0" E | Fjord |
Name ID: 425
Place ID: 2753
A fjord, extending NW-SE between Fisher Island and Lied Promontory in the Larsemann Hills. Plotted from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 and called Broknesdalen (the Broken Cape Valley). |
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