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Glacier 70°18'S, 62°25'W A steep, broad glacier flowing to the head of Smith Inlet between Moe Point and Hughes Ice Piedmont, on the E coast of Palmer Land. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for John M. Croom, USARP biologist at Palmer Station in 1968-69. He was U.S. Exchange Scientist
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Glacier 70°23'S, 62°30'W Broad glacier, about 40 mi long, flowing in an ENE direction to the gap between Mount Tenniel and the Eland Mountains, and then E to Smith Inlet. The upper part of this glacier was charted in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill; the seaward side by the USAS survey party
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Glacier 70°28'S, 63°42'W The broad NW tributary to the Clifford Glacier, entering it just SE of Mikus Hill. Mapped by the USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN after Harriet Richardson, French zoologist, author of a number of reports on the Crustacea (Isopoda) collected by the French Antarctic
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Mikus Hill 70°27'S, 63°50'W A hill with a number of bare rock exposures, surmounting the SW wall of
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Mount Tennie, 70°20'S, 62°48'W A mountain, 1,625 m, standing 7 mi WNW of the mouth of
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Clifford Glacier, which is fed from the north by the Richardson Glacier, drains into the Smith Inlet from the west. Features to the north include Croom Glacier, Moe Point, Shabica Glacier, Mount Tenniel, Kubitza Glacier, Mount Samsel and Mikus Hill. Features to the south
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Glacier 70°21'S, 62°45'W A northern tributary glacier to the Clifford Glacier, joining it near its terminus just E of Mount Tenniel. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Stephen V. Shabica, USARP biologist and Station Scientific Leader at Palmer Station in 1970.
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Samsel, Mount 70°24'S, 63815'W A mountain along the N side of
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Glacier 70°24'S, 63°11'W A northern tributary glacier to the Clifford Glacier, joining it just east of Mount Samsel. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for J.T. Kubitza, BUG, USN, Chief Builder in the construction detachment at Palmer Station in 1969-70.
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Moe Point 70°19'S, 62°23'W A point consisting of a small bare rock bluff, located just S of Croom Glacier on the NW side of Smith Inlet. Mapped by USGS in 1974. Named by US-ACAN for Richard Moe, USARP biologist at Palmer Station in 1974.
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