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
HipĆ³crates, glaciar (ARG) 64° 22' 00.0" S 62° 21' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 101154 Place ID: 6406

Hippocrates Glacier (GBR) 64° 22' 00.0" S 62° 21' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 109324 Place ID: 6406

flowing SE into Buls Bay, Brabant Island, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of medicine grouped in this area, named after Hippocrates (c. 460-377BC), Greek physician and author of works on medicine, who also established a professional code of medical conduct (APC, 1960, p.5; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974).

Hippocrates Glacier (USA) 64° 22' 00.0" S 62° 22' 00.0" W Glacier
Name ID: 126546 Place ID: 6406

Glacier at least 3 mi long and 2 mi wide, flowing SE into Buls Bay on the E side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1953, but not named. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the UK-APC for Hippocrates (460-ca. 355 B.C.), Greek physician and author of numerous works on medicine, who also established a professional code of medical conduct.

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