Meiklejohn Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Meiklejohn 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 George VI Sound, SE of Moore Point, was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by BGLE in October 1936 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); following further survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1949, named after Col. Ian Forbes Meiklejohn, RCS (1907-77), BGLE radio operator (APC, 1955, p.15; DCS 601 sheet W 70 66, 1956; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/10, 1-DOS 1974). A BAS Pilatus Porter aircraft was abandoned near a nunatak at the head of this glacier, 1 March 1968.
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