Name details

Archer Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 107545

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

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:

Narrative

flowing W into Flandres Bay, Danco Coast, was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers of photography grouped in this area, named after Frederick Scott Archer (1813-57), English architect and inventor of the wet collodion process of photography in 1849; this was the first practical process on glass and displaced calotype and daguerrotype in 1851 (APC, 1960, p.2).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
65° 12' 00.0" S
-65.20000°
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Longitude:
63° 02' 00.0" W
-63.03333°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

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

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
23-Sep-1960

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