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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| Asimutodden (NOR) | 68° 51' 00.0" S | 90° 26' 24.0" W | |
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Name ID: 114811
Place ID: 568
Small point 1.5 km N of Michajlovodden S on Von Bellingshausenkysten, on the E side of Peter I Øy. A.=the azimuth point. Point used as reference object during azimut-observations at Michajlovodden. |
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| Astro Glacier (AUS) | 82° 57' 00.0" S | 157° 19' 59.9" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 568
Place ID: 583
A small glacier, 28 km long, draining the northern end of the Miller Range. The glacier flows into the Marsh Glacier and is separated from the main part of the Nimrod Glacier by a line of Nunataks. Discovered and named by the New Zealand Geological and Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961-62), which occupied an Astro station on a bluff at the mouth of the glacier in December, 1961. |
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