Sibelius Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sibelius 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 S into Haydn Inlet, N Alexander Island, was roughly mapped from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937 (Stephenson, 1940, map facing p.232); photographed from the air by RARE in 1947, mapped from air photographs by FIDS in 1959 and shown as flowing into Mozart Ice Piedmont (q.v.); in association with the names of other composers in this area, named after Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish composer ([in 69°52'S 70°05'W] APC, 1961, p.3; BA chart 3571, 14.vii.1961; Searle, 1963, end map; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of January 1974] APC, 1977, p.30; BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/5 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978). USLANDSAT imagery of February 1979 (from which Mozart Ice Piedmont was redefined) shows the glacier flowing into Haydn Inlet (BAS 250P sheet SR 19-20/9, 2-DOS 1982).
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