Antevs Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Antevs 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:
on Arrowsmith Peninsula flowing N into Müller Ice Shelf (q.v.), was surveyed by FIDS from Detaille Island and Horseshoe Island , 1955-57, and named North Heim Glacier (Heim Glacier, q.v.) (APC, 1959a, p.9; BA, 1961, p.189). Heim Glacier, North (BA, 1961, p.433). Following air photography by FIDASE in 1956-57, the feature was renamed Antevs Glacier, after Ernst Valdemar Antevs (b. 1888), American glacial geologist, in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area ([as including the ice shelf] APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; [as a separate feature] BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978; APC, 1986, p.3). Anteus [sic] Glacier (BA, 1974, p.200).
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