Name details

Meridian Glacier

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

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

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110126

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

on W side of Godfrey Upland, flowing S into Clarke Glacier, Fallières Coast, was traversed by USAS in January 1941 (Ronne, 1945, p.21); photographed from the air by RARE, 27 November 1947, and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in December 1958; named descriptively from its meridional direction of flow (APC, 1962, p.21; DOS 610 sheet W 68 66, 1963).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 45' 00.0" S
-68.75000°
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Longitude:
66° 37' 00.0" W
-66.61667°
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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:
31-Aug-1962

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