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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| Hoseason Glacier (AUS) | 67° 08' 58.9" S | 58° 11' 39.1" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 443
Place ID: 6635
A glacier, at least 26 km long, which flows northwards into the sea about 19 km to the west of Brxka Island. Plotted from oblique air photography taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skotviktangen (The Stack Bay Tongue). |
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| Hoseason Glacier (RUS) | 67° 10' 00.0" S | 58° 05' 00.0" E | Glacier |
| Name ID: 118516 Place ID: 6635 | |||
| Hoseason Glacier (USA) | 67° 06' 00.0" S | 58° 07' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 126729
Place ID: 6635
Glacier 12 mi long, flowing N into the sea between West Stack and East Stack, 15 mi E of Edward VIII Bay. Roughly mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Visited in 1954 by an ANARE sledging party and named by ANCA for Richard Hoseason of ANARE, who perished on a field trip at Heard Island in 1952. |
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