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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| 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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| Astro Glacier (NZL) | 82° 55' 35.9" S | 156° 56' 28.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 139970
Place ID: 583
Glacier between Turner Hills and Tricorn Peak in Miller Range, flowing northeast into Marsh Glacier at Corner Nunatak. |
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| Astro Glacier (USA) | 82° 54' 00.0" S | 157° 20' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 121976
Place ID: 583
Glacier between Turner Hills and Tricorn Peak in the Miller Range, flowing NE into the Marsh Glacier. Seen by the northern party of the NZGSAE (1961-62) and so named because an astro station was set up on the bluff at the mouth of the glacier in December 1961. |
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| Kichenside Glacier (AUS) | 67° 46' 59.9" S | 47° 31' 00.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 583
Place ID: 7506
A glacier about 6-9 km wide and 28 km long, flowing north-east into the southern part of the Hannan Ice Shelf, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. Named after Squadron Leader J. Kichenside, RAAF, officer commanding the Antarctic Flight at Mawson in 1960. |
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