Spiess Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Spiess 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:
on Merz Peninsula (q.v.) flowing N into Hilton Inlet, Black Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 1968-69, and surveyed from the ground by BAS from "Stonington Island", 1974-75; in association with the names of Antarctic oceanographers grouped in this area, named after Kapt. (later Vizeadm.) Fritz August Spiess (1881-1959), of the German Navy, Commander and Scientific Chief of the German Atlantic Expedition in Meteor, 1925-27, after the death of Prof. A. Merz (Merz Peninsula q.v.) (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1979; APC, 1980, p.5).
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