Name details

Endurance Glacier

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

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

If this information is incorrect, please e-mail mapping@aad.gov.au

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 108687

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 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).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
61° 09' 57.8" S
-61.16606°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
55° 10' 58.2" W
-55.18283°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

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:
3-Nov-1971

Display Scales

Note These display scales were chosen for use by Australia, with an emphasis on East Antarctica.
          For example, selecting 'Aus_display_scale_20M' would only return names that would appear on a 1:20 million scale map.

Aus_display_scale_20M: No      Aus_display_scale_10M: No     
Aus_display_scale_5M: No      Aus_display_scale_2M: No     
Aus_display_scale_1M: No      Aus_display_scale_500k: No     
Aus_display_scale_250k: No      Aus_display_scale_100k: No     
Aus_display_scale_50k: No      Aus_display_scale_25k: No     
Aus_display_scale_10k: No      Aus_display_scale_5k: No     
Aus_display_scale_1k: No     


Related information

Biodiversity
View fauna, flora or both within 1.0 degree of this location

Place names
View British or international place names within 1.0 degree of this location.