Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Fowlie Glacier (NZL) | 71° 40' 00.0" S | 168° 04' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 113328
Place ID: 4881
A glacier, 13mi long, flowing NW from Mouth Ajax and Mount Royalist, Admirality Mountains, into Dennistoun Glacier. Named in 1983 by NZ-APC after Walter Fowlie, field assistant, NZ Antarctic Division; member of R.H. Findlay's geology expedition to the area, 1981-82. |
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| Fowlie Glacier (USA) | 71° 40' 00.0" S | 168° 04' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 125332
Place ID: 4881
A tributary glacier, 13 mi long, in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land. From a common head with Dennistoun Glacier, it flows NW between Mount Ajax and Mount Faget, entering the main flow of the Dennistoun Glacier at the SE base of Lyttelton Range. Named after Walter Fowlie of the New Zealand Antarctic Division, field assistant with a NZARP geological party to this area, 1981-82, led by R.H. Findlay. The original application of the name (NZ-APC, US-ACAN 1983) was revised in 1994 in relation to Dennistoun Glacier, q.v. |
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