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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| Benbrook Glacier (NZL) | 81° 27' 00.0" S | 158° 55' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 134255
Place ID: 17281
A glacier 8km long in the Churchill Mountains. It flows south south-east from Egress Peak, Carlstrom Foothills, into the Flynn Glacier. Named after James R. Benbrook, Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX; USAP team member in balloon-borne investigation of the ionosphere and magnetosphere over the geographic South Pole, 1985-95. |
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| Benbrook Glacier (USA) | 81° 27' 00.0" S | 158° 55' 00.0" E | Glacier |
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Name ID: 135882
Place ID: 17281
A glacier 5 mi long in the Churchill Mountains. It flows SSE from Egress Peak, Carlstrom Foothills, into the Flynn Glacier. Named after James R. Benbrook, Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX; USAP team member in balloon-borne investigation of the ionosphere and magnetosphere over the geographic South Pole, 1985-95. |
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| Brook Glacier (USA) | 78° 42' 00.0" S | 85° 09' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 135829
Place ID: 18239
A glacier flowing westward between Mount Strybing and Mount Allen into Bender Glacier in S. Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Named by US-ACAN (2006) after Edward J. Brook, Professor of Geosciences, Oregon State University; USAP investigator of Antarctic paleoclimate in numerous field seasons from 1988; Chair, U.S. National Ice Core Working Group for use of Antarctic ice cores for research purposes, 2004-05. |
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