Name details

Cheetham Ice Tongue

Cheetham Ice Tongue (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Cheetham Ice Tongue  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 112978

Feature type: Tongue (12)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

An ice tongue, about 2 miles wide and about 12m above sea level, forming the seaward extension of Davis Glacier along the coast of Victoria Land. First chartered by the BAE, 1907-09, at which time it was about 3 miles long. Shackleton named this feature for Alfred Cheetham, third officer and boatswain on the expedition ship Nimrod, and a former member of the NAE, 1901-04.

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Location

Latitude:
75° 45' 00.0" S
-75.75000°
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Longitude:
162° 55' 00.0" E
162.91667°
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Altitude:
12 m
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Map

Source

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Remote sensing:
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Comments

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Approval status

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