Name details

Lewis Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 109815

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 ESE into Seligman Inlet, Bowman Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" and "Stonington Island" in 1947; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Dr William Vaughan Lewis (1907-61), Welsh geographer and glacial geomorphologist; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1949-61, who carried out glaciological research in Iceland and Norway (BA chart 3570, 4.vi.1954; APC, 1955, p.13; DCS 601 sheet 67 64, 1955). Glaciar Lewis (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.482). Lednik L'yuisa (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 44' 00.0" S
-67.73333°
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Longitude:
65° 46' 00.0" W
-65.76667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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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:
22-Jan-1951

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