Lerchenfeld Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lerchenfeld Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing NW between Bertrab Nunatak and Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, was roughly mapped in c. 77°50'S 34°50'W by GAE, 1911-12, and named Graf Lerchenfeld Gletscher, after Count Hugo von und zu Lerchenfeld-Köfering (1843-1925), a supporter of the expedition (Przybyllok, 1913, map p.3). Lerchenfeld Glacier (Stanford, chart, [1923]; [in c. 78°00'S 34°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; BA chart 3176, 15.i.1971; [correctly indicated] APC, 1982, p.3). Lerchenfield [sic] Glacier (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Graf Lerchenfeld Glacier, as rejected form (USBGN, 1949, p.35). Lednik Lerkhenfel'd (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Lerchenfeldv Ledovec (Bártl, 1958, map facing p.144). Lednik Lerkhenfel'da (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Lerchenfeld (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). The glacier was delineated from USLANDSAT imagery of 27 January 1973.
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