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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| Goodspeed Glacier (NZL) | 77° 29' 00.0" S | 162° 27' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 113413
Place ID: 5488
A hanging glacier on the south wall of the Wright Valley between the Denton and Hart Glaciers. Named by US Deep Freeze III, 1956-57, for Robert Goodspeed of Pennington, New Jersey, USA, a geological assistant to Robert Nicholas in Antarctica in the 1959-60 season under US National Science Foundations auspices. |
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| Goodspeed Glacier (USA) | 77° 29' 00.0" S | 162° 27' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 125798
Place ID: 5488
A small hanging glacier on the south wall of Wright Valley, Victoria Land, between the Hart and Denton Glaciers. Named by U.S. geologist Robert Nichols after Robert Goodspeed, geological assistant to Nichols at nearby Marble Point in the 1959-60 field season. |
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