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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| Ball Glacier (GBR) | 64° 20' 00.0" S | 57° 22' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 107651
Place ID: 836
Small glacier separating Redshaw Point from Hamilton Point, SE James Ross Island. Named after Dr H. William Ball (b. 1926), Keeper of Palaeontology, British Museum, 1966-86, and author of FIDS report on fossils from the area (GBR text 1998). |
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| Ball Glacier (USA) | 64° 20' 00.0" S | 57° 22' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 122151
Place ID: 836
Small glacier separating Redshaw Point from Hamilton Point, flowing NE to Markham Bay on the SE side of James Ross Island. Named by UK-APC in 1995 after H. William Ball (b. 1926), Keeper of Paleontology, British Museum (Natural History), 1966-86, and author of FIDS Scientific Report No. 24 on fossils from the James Ross Island area. |
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| Cloyd Island (AUS) | 66° 24' 38.5" S | 110° 33' 11.9" E | Island |
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Name ID: 836
Place ID: 2781
An island in the southern Windmill Islands off the Budd Coast, between Ford Island and Herring Island. Plotted from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). Named by USACAN after J R Cloyd, Army Transport Service observer with USN Operation Windmill (1947-48). |
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