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
Apollo Island (USA) 70° 15' 00.0" S 1° 55' 00.0" W Island
Name ID: 121869 Place ID: 445

A small ice-covered island about 18 mi ENE of Blaskimen Island in the NW part of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, Queen Maud Land. The island is 10 mi ENE of the site of the South African Sanae Station. The name Apollo appears to be first used on a South African map of 1969.

Greenall Glacier (AUS) 73° 13' 14.0" S 68° 13' 28.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 445 Place ID: 5650

A small glacier in the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land, between Prior Bluff and McIntyre Bluffs. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after A. Greenall, surveyor with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1972.

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