Name details

Jezek Glacier

Jezek Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Jezek Glacier  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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United States Gazetteer Id 127100

Feature type: Glacier (12)

Origin

This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A glacier on the SE side of Platform Spur, flowing NE into Emmanuel Glacier in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after Kenneth C. Jezek, geophysicist with CRREL and NOAA, 1983-89; in 12 visits to the Arctic and Antarctic, conducted geophysical surveys using remote sensing techniques on measurement and properties of terrestrial ice and sea ice with work at Dome Charlie, Ross Ice Shelf and Weddell Sea; Director, Byrd Polar Research Center, from 1989.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
77° 59' 00.0" S
-77.98333°
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Longitude:
162° 13' 00.0" E
162.21667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-1992

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