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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| McArthur Glacier (GBR) | 71° 20' 00.0" S | 67° 29' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 110060
Place ID: 9210
flowing W through N Batterbee Mountains into George VI Sound, following surveys by BAS, 1962-72, was named after Alistair Hugh McArthur (b.1941), BAS Base Commander, "Stonington Island", 1967-69 (APC, 1977, p.21; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/14, 2-DOS 1984). |
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| McArthur Glacier (USA) | 71° 20' 00.0" S | 67° 29' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 128599
Place ID: 9210
A glacier between Christie Peaks and Swine Hill, flowing W from Palmer Land into George VI Sound. Named by UK-APC for Alistair H. McArthur, BAS geophysicist at Stonington Island, 1967-68. |
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