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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| Aurora Glacier (NZL) | 77° 36' 12.6" S | 167° 39' 51.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 112696
Place ID: 641
Large steep glacier draining that part of Ross Island between Mount Erebus and Mount Terra Nova, and flowing south into McMurdo Ice Shelf at Vee Cliffs. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF14 |
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| Aurora Glacier (USA) | 77° 37' 00.0" S | 167° 38' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122020
Place ID: 641
Large glacier draining that part of Ross Island between Mount Erebus and Mount Terra Nova, and flowing S into McMurdo Ice Shelf. Named by A.J. Heine in 1963 after the Aurora, the ship of the Ross Sea Party of the British expedition under Shackleton, 1914-17. |
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| Felton Head (AUS) | 67° 16' 59.9" S | 46° 58' 59.9" E | Head |
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Name ID: 641
Place ID: 4512
An extensive, flat-topped coastal outcrop on the western side of Casey Bay, Enderby Land. The dark-brown rock is almost sheer on the seaward side and rises a little above the level of the continental ice inland. Plotted from air photographs taken from an ANARE aircraft in 1956. First visited by an ANARE party led by S L Kirkby in November 1960. Named after Sgt K Felton, RAAF, engine fitter at Mawson in 1960. |
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