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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| Balish Glacier (USA) | 79° 25' 00.0" S | 84° 30' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122149
Place ID: 833
A glacier, 18 mi long, flowing N from Soholt Peaks to enter Splettstoesser Glacier just NE of Springer Peak, in the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1961-66. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Daniel Balish, Executive Officer of USN Squadron VX-6 during Deep Freeze 1965, and Commanding Officer in 1967. |
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| Denison Island (AUS) | 66° 18' 24.1" S | 110° 26' 56.0" E | Island |
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Name ID: 833
Place ID: 3524
An island about 0.5 km west of Beall Island, Windmill Islands. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named after D R Denison, auroral scientist at Wilkes in 1958. |
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