Name details

Irvine Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109476

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 S, between Guettard Range to NE and Rare Range and Latady Mountains to SW, into Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, was seen from the air and photographed at its mouth by RARE, 21 November 1947 (Ronne, 1948b, p.372 and Fig.22, p.379 [the title for this figure being incorrectly applied to Fig.20, p.378]), and surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947. The name John K. Wright Glacier, after Dr J.K. Wright (Wright Inlet, q.v.), was applied to the present feature shown in c. 74°39'S 63°16'W as the NE of two glaciers flowing into Gardner Inlet N of Mount Austin, the SW glacier being Wetmore Glacier (q.v.) (AGS map, 1948). The present feature was later renamed Irvine Glacier after George J. Irvine, of the Engineer Depot, Fort Belvoir, Va, who outlined the photographic programme for RARE (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357; USHO chart 6638, 1955; USGS sketch map, Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Lednik Ervina (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Glaciar Irvine (Chile. IGM map 28, 1966).

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Location

Latitude:
74° 42' 00.0" S
-74.70000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
63° 15' 00.0" W
-63.25000°
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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:
20-Dec-1974

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