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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Maitland Glacier (GBR) | 68° 47' 00.0" S | 65° 06' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 109978
Place ID: 8880
flowing NE into Mobiloil Inlet, E of Yates Spur, Bowman Coast, was photographed from the air by Wilkins, 20 December 1928, and by Ellsworth, 23 November 1935 (Joerg, 1937, Figs 1 and 2, p.434); further photographed from the air by USAS in 1940 and by RARE in 1947; named after Osborn Maitland Miller (b.1897), cartographer, American Geographical Society, NY, from 1922, who from Wilkins' and Ellsworth's photographs constructed the first reconnaissance map of this area (Joerg, 1937, map facing p.444) (USBGN, 1956, p.202; APC, 1962, p.21; DOS 610 sheet W 68 64, 1963); surveyed from the ground in its lower reaches in December 1958 and in its entirety in 1960 by FIDS from "Stonington Island". Lednik Meytlenda (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). |
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Maitland Glacier (USA) | 68° 43' 00.0" S | 65° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 128363
Place ID: 8880
Glacier flowing along the W flank of Hitchcock Heights into Mobiloil Inlet, on the E coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This glacier may appear indistinctly in an aerial photograph taken by Sir Hubert Wilkins on his flight of Dec. 20, 1928, but it was more clearly shown in aerial photographs taken by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935 and the USAS in 1940. Named by the US-ACAN in 1952 for O. Maitland Miller of the American Geographical Society, who by utilizing Wilkins' and Ellsworth's photographs assisted in constructing the first reconnaissance map of this area. |
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Maitland, glaciar (ARG) | 68° 47' 00.0" S | 65° 06' 00.0" W | Glacier |
Name ID: 101453 Place ID: 8880 |
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