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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| Jorda Glacier (AUS) | 81° 18' 00.0" S | 159° 13' 59.9" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 582
Place ID: 7229
A glacier about 28 km long, flowing eastward from the slopes between Mount Coley and Pyramid Mountain to Nursery Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after Lt. Cdr. H.P. Jorda, USN, a pilot with VX-6 Squadron, who made several long-range exploratory flights during USN Operation Deepfreeze 1962. |
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| Jorda Glacier (USA) | 81° 18' 00.0" S | 159° 49' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 127169
Place ID: 7229
A glacier, about 15 mi long, draining the E slopes of the Churchill Mountains between Mount Coley and Pyramid Mountain and merging with the lower Nursery Glacier just before the latter enters the Ross Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Cdr. Henry P. Jorda, USN, pilot with Squadron VX-6 during USN OpDFrz I, 1955-56. |
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