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
Harbord Glacier Tongue (NZL) 75° 55' 00.0" S 162° 50' 00.0" E Tongue
Name ID: 113472 Place ID: 5997

Harbord Glacier Tongue (RUS) 75° 55' 00.0" S 162° 45' 00.0" E Tongue
Name ID: 118369 Place ID: 5997

Harbord Glacier Tongue (USA) 75° 55' 00.0" S 162° 50' 00.0" E Tongue
Name ID: 126194 Place ID: 5997

A glacier tongue forming the seaward extension of Harbord Glacier on the coast of Victoria Land. First charted by the BrAE under Shackleton, 1907-09, at which time it extended about 5 mi into the Ross Sea. Named by Shackleton for A.E. Harbord, second officer of the Nimrod for the last year of the expedition.

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