Chambers Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Chambers 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 E into Support Force Glacier, Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN on a flight from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back, 13 January 1956; in association with the names of pioneers in US naval aviation grouped in this area, named after Capt. Washington Irving Chambers, USN (b.1856), who was involved in the development of the aircraft catapult for ships ([c. 82 30'S 40 00'W] NGS map, 1957b; [c. 83 30'S 48 00'W] AGS map, 1959; [c. 83 28'S 49 00'W] USBGN, 1960, p.2; AGS map, 1962; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). The glacier was rephotographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground by USGS in 1965-66. Lednik Cheymbersa (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Chambers (Argentina. IGM map, 1966).
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