Name details

Discovery Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113155

Feature type: Glacier (12)

Origin

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

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A broad glacier, approximately 18.5km long, between Hurricane Ridge and Mount Discovery on Scott Coast, Victoria Land. The glacier flows north to coalesce with the east margin of lower Koettlitz Glacier.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) in association with Mount Discovery, which Captain Robert Scott had named after the expedition ship of the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery expedition, BrNAE) (1901-04), and associated with Discovery Bluff and Lake Discovery.

Location

Latitude:
78° 20' 00.0" S
-78.33333°
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Longitude:
164° 30' 00.0" E
164.50000°
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Altitude:
217 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 18_34 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
4-Nov-1999

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