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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| McCleary Glacier (AUS) | 79° 33' 00.0" S | 156° 49' 59.9" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 486
Place ID: 9240
A glacier about 20 km long, flowing southwards into the Darwin Glacier. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. |
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| McCleary Glacier (NZL) | 79° 33' 00.0" S | 156° 50' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 140367
Place ID: 9240
A glacier flowing southwards from west of Bromwich Terrace into the Darwin Glacier for approximately 30km, the ice streams merging south of Medusa Peak. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MM04 |
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| McCleary Glacier (USA) | 79° 33' 00.0" S | 156° 50' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 128626
Place ID: 9240
A broad glacier about 10 mi long, draining southward into Darwin Glacier just W of Tentacle Ridge. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for George McCleary, public information officer on the staff of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer (1959-61), whose labors helped to start the Bulletin of the USAPO. |
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