Finsterwalder Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Finsterwalder 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 SW into the head of Lallemand Fjord, Loubet Coast, was surveyed in its upper reaches from the plateau by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-47; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Sebastian Finsterwalder (1862-1951), Professor of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Technical University of Munich, 1891-1931, and his son Richard Finsterwalder (1899-1963), Professor of Photogrammetry, Technical University of Hanover, 1942-48, and Technical University of Munich, 1948-63, German glaciologists who made special studies of glacier flow, the latter being the first to adapt photogrammetric methods to its measurement (APC, 1955, p.10; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.
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