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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| Mill Glacier (NZL) | 85° 10' 00.0" S | 168° 30' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 113916
Place ID: 9561
A glacier, about 15 miles wide, flowing in a north-west direction along the north side of the Dominion Range and entering the east side of the Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the Southern Polar Party of the BAE, 1907-09, in December 1908, and named for Dr Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic expert who wrote the introduction to The Heart of the Antarctic, Shackletons Account of the expedition. Mill, who wrote The Siege of the Soth Pole, in 1901, prepared a bibliography of Antarctic literature. Later he wrote the standard biography of Shacketon. He was librarian of the Royal Geographical Society. |
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| Mill Glacier (USA) | 85° 10' 00.0" S | 168° 30' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 128889
Place ID: 9561
A tributary glacier, 10 mi wide, flowing NW between the Dominion Range and the Supporters Range into Beardmore Glacier. Discovered by the BrAE (1907-09) and named for Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic historian. |
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