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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| Gilbert Glacier (GBR) | 69° 50' 00.0" S | 71° 07' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 109023
Place ID: 5316
flowing S from Nichols Snowfield into Mozart Ice Piedmont, N Alexander Island, following surveys by BAS from 1968 was named, in association with Sullivan Glacier (q.v.), after Sir William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911), British librettist (BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1980, p.4). |
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| Gilbert Glacier (USA) | 70° 00' 00.0" S | 71° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 125676
Place ID: 5316
A glacier c. 20 mi long flowing S from Nichols Snowfield into Mozart Ice Piedmont, Alexander Island. Photographed from the air by RARE, 1947-48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of FIDS, 1960. Named in association with Sullivan Glacier (q.v.), after Sir William S. Gilbert (1836-1911), British librettist. Named by UK-APC, 1977. |
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