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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| Armour Inlet (USA) | 73° 38' 00.0" S | 124° 39' 00.0" W | Inlet |
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Name ID: 121922
Place ID: 520
Ice-filled inlet indenting the N side of Siple Island just W of Armour Peninsula, along the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The inlet was first roughly delineated from air photos taken by USN Operation HighJump in January 1947. Named by US-ACAN for the Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, which donated funds to the USAS, 1939-41, for purchase of the Snow Cruiser. |
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| Rogers Glacier (AUS) | 69° 59' 13.2" S | 73° 12' 50.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 520
Place ID: 12289
A glacier about 19 km wide, flowing north-west into the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).Named after Lieut. Cmdr. W.J. Rogers, USN, commander of an aircraft which photographed the area during Operation Highjump. |
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