Name details

Johnston Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109541

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 into Nantucket Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, roughly mapped and named Freeborn Johnston Glacier (AGS map, 1948) or Johnston Glacier (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357, p.390; APC, 1955, p.12; DOS 601 sheet W 74 62, 1958; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981), after Freeborn Johnston, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC, who assisted in the planning and preparation of results of the RARE geophysical programme. Lednik Dzhonstona (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from the air photographs by USGS. Glaciar Hernández, so called by AAE after José Hernández (Midas Island, q.v.) (Argentina. MD, 1978, letter H).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
74° 21' 00.0" S
-74.35000°
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Longitude:
62° 55' 00.0" W
-62.91667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
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:
28-Jan-1953

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