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
Hill Glacier (RUS) 73° 03' 00.0" S 75° 40' 00.0" W Hill
Name ID: 118448 Place ID: 6383

Hill Glacier (GBR) 73° 03' 00.0" S 75° 40' 00.0" W Hill
Name ID: 109313 Place ID: 6383

on Spaatz Island flowing W into Stange Sound, English Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-66, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Lennie J. Hill, USGS topographic engineer, Marie Byrd Land survey party, 1967-68 (USGS sketch map Bryan Coast-Ellsworth Land, 1968; APC, 1975, p.4).

Hill Glacier (USA) 73° 03' 00.0" S 75° 40' 00.0" W Hill
Name ID: 126528 Place ID: 6383

A broad glacier that drains the west-central part of Spaatz Island, at the south side of Ronne Entrance. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961-66. Named by US-ACAN for Lennie J. Hill, USGS Topographic Engineer, a member of the Marie Byrd Land Survey Party, 1967-68.

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