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
Hampton Glacier (RUS) 69° 30' 00.0" S 70° 10' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 118357 Place ID: 5946

Hampton Glacier (GBR) 69° 29' 00.0" S 70° 11' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 109188 Place ID: 5946

flowing N into Schokalsky Bay, N Alexander Island, between Douglas Range and Elgar Uplands, was photographed from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937, and by RARE in 1947; surveyed from the ground at its mouth by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1948; named after Wilfred Edward Hampton (1907-1994), Second-in-command and chief pilot, BGLE, who made the 1937 flight; member of BAARE (APC, 1955, p.11; USHO chart 6638, 1955; DOS 610 sheet W 69 70, 1960; Searle, 1963, end map; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978); mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959. Lednik Khamptona (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Hampton Glacier (USA) 69° 20' 00.0" S 70° 05' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 126152 Place ID: 5946

Glacier in the NE part of Alexander Island, 25 mi long and 5 mi wide, which flows NNE along the W wall of Douglas Range to Schokalsky Bay. First photographed from the air during a flight up this glacier in 1937 by the BGLE. The mouth of the glacier was surveyed in 1948 by the FIDS and later named for Wilfred E. Hampton of the BGLE, 1934-37, who piloted the airplane that made the above mentioned flight in 1937.

Hampton, glaciar (ARG) 69° 20' 00.0" S 70° 06' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 101103 Place ID: 5946

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