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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| Arago Glacier (GBR) | 64° 50' 00.0" S | 62° 22' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107544
Place ID: 451
Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, flowing S into Andvord Bay, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from Danco Island in 1956-57; named after Dominique-Franc ois-Jean Arago (1786-1853), French geodesist, who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapping in 1839, in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry grouped in this area (APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Glaciar Arago (Argentina. AA, 1991 p.3) |
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| Arago Glacier (USA) | 64° 51' 00.0" S | 62° 23' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 121875
Place ID: 451
Glacier flowing into Andvord Bay just NW of Moser Glacier, on the W coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the FIDS from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Dominique-Francois-Jean Arago (1786-1853), French geodesist who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapmaking in 1839. |
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| Arago, glaciar (ARG) | 64° 50' 00.0" S | 62° 22' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 100107
Place ID: 451
Fluye dentro de bahía Andvord, costa occidental de la península Antártica. Recuerda a Dominique-Francois-Jean Arago (1786-1853), geodesta francés, primero en demostrar la aplicación de la fotografía a la cartografía, en el año 1939. SHN carta H-714. |
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| Lieske Glacier (AUS) | 80° 04' 59.9" S | 156° 49' 59.9" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 451
Place ID: 8438
A tributary glacier of the Hatherton Glacier, which drains the northern slopes of Mount Olympus, between Johnstone Ridge and Dusky Ridge. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after B.J. Lieske, meteorologist, who wintered at Little America V in 1957. |
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