Meinardus Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Meinardus 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 E into New Bedford Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940 (USHO, 1943, upper photograph p.276); roughly surveyed from the ground by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; in association with the names of Antarctic meteorologists grouped in this area, named after Wilhelm Meinardus (1867-1952), German geographer, meteorologist and climatologist; author of the meteorological reports of GAE, 1901-03 (Berlin and Leipzig, 1913, 1923), in which he first drew attention to what was later called the Antarctic convergence (APC, 1955, p.15; Australia. DI map, 1956; DOS sheet W 73 60, 1957; sheet W 73 62, 1957; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969). Lednik Meynardusa (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Meinardus (Chile. IGM map 28, 1966). Lednik Meynardus (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1966-69, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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