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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| Armstrong Glacier (GBR) | 71° 29' 00.0" S | 67° 23' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107568
Place ID: 522
flowing SW from Batterbee Mountains to George VI Sound, following surveys by BAS from "Stonington Island" and "Fossil Bluff", 1962-72, was named after Edward Barry Armstrong (b.1937), BAS surveyor, Adelaide Island and Fossil Bluff, 1964-65 (APC, 1977, p.4; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 2-DOS 1984). Otter Glacier, following local usage after de Havilland Otter aircraft (Gurling, 1979, map p.614). |
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| Armstrong Glacier (USA) | 71° 31' 00.0" S | 67° 30' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 121924
Place ID: 522
A glacier flowing from the south side of Mount Bagshawe westward into George VI Sound. It provides the only known safe route for mechanical vehicles from George VI Sound to the Palmer Land plateau. Named by UK-APC for Edward B. Armstrong, BAS surveyor at Stonington Island, 1964-65. |
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| England Glacier (AUS) | 73° 29' 41.0" S | 68° 20' 01.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 522
Place ID: 4269
A small glacier between Gibbs Bluff and McCue Bluff on the Mawson Escarpment, Mac.Robertson Land. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after R England, geologist with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey parties in 1973 and 1974. |
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