Endurance Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Endurance 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 SE to S coast of Elephant Island, following survey by JSEEI was called Flog Glacier in allusion to the effort needed to cross it (Burley, 1971b, map inside front cover); named Endurance Glacier after HMS Endurance (Capt. P.W. Buchanan, RN), ex-Anita Dan of J. Lauritzen Co., Copenhagen (launched in 1956 and recommissioned in 1968), which anchored off the glacier on several occasions in support of JSEEI (APC, 1974, p.4; DOS 610 sheet W 61 54 (Ext.), 1-GSGS, 1972). The expedition refuge hut was established to SW of the glacier. Glaciar Endurance (Argentina. MM chart H-710, 1977).
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