Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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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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| Leverett Glacier (NZL) | 85° 38' 00.0" S | 147° 35' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 113762
Place ID: 8380
A slow-moving glacier about 10 miles wide over 20 miles long, flowing in a west-north-west direction between the Harold Byrd and Tapley Mountains, and terminating at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf close east of the Robert Scott Glacier. Discovered in November 1929, by the Geological party, led by Gould, of the Byrd AE, 1928-30. Named for Frank Leverett, eminent geologist at the University of Michigan and an authority on glacial geology of the central United States. |
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| Leverett Glacier (RUS) | 85° 35' 00.0" S | 145° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 119060 Place ID: 8380 | |||
| Leverett Glacier (USA) | 85° 38' 00.0" S | 147° 35' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 127975
Place ID: 8380
A glacier about 50 mi long and 3 to 4 mi wide, draining northward from the Watson Escarpment, between the California and Stanford Plateaus, and then trending WNW between Tapley Mountains and Harold Byrd Mountains to terminate at the head of the Ross Ice Shelf close E of Scott Glacier. Discovered in December 1929 by the ByrdAE geological party under Laurence Gould, and named by him for Frank Leverett, eminent geologist at the University of Michigan and authority on glacial geology of the central United States. |
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