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
Lepëhina, lednik (RUS) 72° 20' 00.0" S 70° 25' 00.0" E Glacier
Name ID: 119048 Place ID: 8348

Lepekhin Glacier (USA) 72° 43' 00.0" S 69° 58' 00.0" E
Name ID: 136952 Place ID: 8348

A large glacier flowing north-northeastward from Mawson Plateau on the east side of the Mawson Escarpment. Approximately 60 miles long, the glacier terminates eastward of Clemence Massif where the confluent ice enters the east side of Lambert Glacier. The name Lednik Lepëhina appears in the Soviet gazetteer Slovar" Geograficheskikh Nazvaniy Antarktiki, 1987. Not: Lednik Lepëhina.

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