Name details

Heezen Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109251

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 NE into Violante Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1974-75; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after Dr Bruce Charles Heezen (1924-77), American marine geologist and oceanographer; Professor of Geology, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, NY, 1964-77, and joint author (with M. Tharp, Tharp Ice Rise, q.v., and C.R. Bentley) of Morphology of the Earth in the Antarctic and Subantarctic (New York, 1972); he died aboard the USN nuclear submarine NR-1 during a research cruise to explore the Reykjanes Ridge, S of Iceland, 28 June 1977 (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.4).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
72° 47' 00.0" S
-72.78333°
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Longitude:
61° 22' 00.0" W
-61.36667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
7-Feb-1978

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