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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| Strange Glacier (GBR) | 74° 50' 00.0" S | 63° 40' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 111427
Place ID: 14117
flowing SE into the SW arm of Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, was surveyed in its lower reaches by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS; named after Donald Lee Strange, USN, hospital corpsman, "South Pole Station", winter 1964 (USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). |
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| Strange Glacier (USA) | 74° 50' 00.0" S | 63° 40' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 132242
Place ID: 14117
A glacier in the Latady Mountains, draining SE along the S side of Crain Ridge to enter Gardner Inlet between Schmitt Mesa and Mount Austin, in Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS from surveys and USN air photos, 1961-67. Named by US-ACAN for Donald L. Strange, hospital corpsman at South Pole Station in 1964. |
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