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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| Erebus Glacier Tongue (NZL) | 77° 41' 59.4" S | 166° 47' 51.7" E | Tongue |
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Name ID: 113249
Place ID: 4303
A glacier tongue descending from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island and extending 13.5km out into Erebus Bay (as of 2019). As part of it is floating and the feature is ever growing outward, the tip periodically breaks off such as during summer sea-ice breakouts. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF13 |
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| Erebus Glacier Tongue (RUS) | 77° 41' 00.0" S | 166° 54' 00.0" E | Tongue |
| Name ID: 117904 Place ID: 4303 | |||
| Erebus Glacier Tongue (USA) | 77° 42' 00.0" S | 166° 40' 00.0" E | Tongue |
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Name ID: 124864
Place ID: 4303
The seaward extension of Erebus Glacier from Ross Island, projecting into Erebus Bay where part of it is floating. Charted and named by the BrNAE under Scott, 1901-04. |
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