Name details

Glimpse Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113401

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

An alpine glacier composed of two segments, separated by an icefall, which flow northeastward from névé in the area north of Auster Pass, northwest of Mount Kempe. The Glimpse Glacier joins the Pipecleaner Glacier about 4km south of the confluence of the latter with the Radian Glacier. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MH09

Named For

The named was given by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1960-61, because it was up this glacier that the geologists traversed to the Koettlitz-Skelton divide at the ridge crest in order to gain their only glimpse of the Polar Plateau in January 1961.

Location

Latitude:
78° 16' 37.2" S
-78.27699°
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Longitude:
162° 46' 11.4" E
162.76984°
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Altitude:
1965 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:
24-May-1961

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