Beaumont Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Beaumont 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 NE into Hilton Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS in December 1940, and either this glacier or Gruening Glacier (q.v.) was roughly mapped (USAAF chart [LR-]74, 1942; USHO, 1943, upper photograph p.275); seen from the air by RARE in November 1947 and called Tejas Glacier, after the Tejas Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Beaumont, Texas (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357, p.391); later named Beaumont Glacier (Ronne, 1949, map p.249, p.290; APC, 1955, p.5; DCS 601 sheet W 72 62, 1956; USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979); roughly located by FIDS-RARE in November 1947. Lednik Bomont (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Beaumont (Chile. IGM map 20, 1966). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69.
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