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547:. A glacier about 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) long at the base of Condor Peninsula. The glacier flows southeast along the north side of Boyer Spur and merges with the north side of Gruening Glacier just inland from the northwest head of Hilton Inlet. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for geologist Karl S. Kellogg, a member of the USGS Lassiter Coast party in 1972-73.
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455:. A glacier to the west of Hess Mountains, flowing southeast to join Beaumont Glacier near the head of Hilton Inlet. Mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy, 1966-69. Surveyed by BAS, 1972-73. In association with the names of continental drift scientists grouped in this area, named by the United States
716:, overlooking the northwest extremity of Hilton Inlet. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN after Antonio I. Malva-Gomes, topographic engineer with the USGS Lassiter Coast geologic and mapping party in 1970-71. He was also a member of the Pine Island Bay Reconnaissance aboard the USCGC Burton Island, 1974-75.
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754:. Cape rising to 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, marking the north side of the entrance to Hilton Inlet. Discovered by members of East Base of the USAS in 1940. Named for Paul H. Knowles, geologist and leader of the East Base sledging party that surveyed this coast as far south as Hilton Inlet.
628:. A prominent bluff at the head of Hilton Inlet. The bluff was photographed from the air by USAS, 1940, and by RARE, 1947. It was mapped by USGS from United States Navy aerial photographs taken 1966-69. Named by US-ACAN, in association with the names of
501:, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, United States Dept. of the Interior, during the inception of the USAS, and member of the Executive Committee by which the USAS was directed, later United States Senator from Alaska.
200:) is an ice-filled inlet, 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) wide, which recedes about 22 nautical miles (41 km; 25 mi) west from its entrance between Cape Darlington and Cape Knowles, along the east coast of
497:. Broad glacier descending southeast between steep rock walls to the northwest part of Hilton Inlet. Discovered by the USAS in a flight down this glacier from East Base on December 30, 1940. Named for
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401:. A broad glacier flowing in a northeast direction to the southwest part of Hilton Inlet. The USAS discovered and photographed it from the air in 1940. It was resighted in 1947 by the
359:(UK-APC) in 1977 after Captain (later Vice Admiral) Fritz A. Spiess (1881-1959), of the German Navy, Commander and Scientific Chief of the German Atlantic Expedition in
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