Wetmore Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wetmore 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 SE between Rare Range and Latady Mountains into Irvine Glacier (q.v.), Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, was seen from the air and partially photographed by RARE, 21 November 1947, roughly mapped in c.74°43'S 64°08'W, and named Alexander Wetmore Glacier, after Frank Alexander Wetmore (b. 1886), biologist and Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1945-52, who advised on the RARE scientific programme (AGS map, 1948). Wetmore Glacier (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357, p.372 and Fig. 22, p.379 [the title for this figure being incorrectly applied to Fig. 20, p.378]; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.5; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS. Glaciar Wetmore (Chile. IGM map 28, 1966). Lednik Uetmora (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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