Name details

Mackay Glacier Tongue

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113816

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.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A glacier tongue extending 5km from the 100m contour, and 3km wide where it enters Granite Harbour from the Mackay Glacier along the coast of Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MD09

Named For

First charted by the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova expedition, BrAE), 1910-13. The feature takes its name from the Mackay Glacier which was named for Dr Alistair Forbes Mackay, a member of the British Antarctic Expedition (Nimrod expedition, BAE), 1907-09. Not Mackay Ice Tongue.

Location

Latitude:
76° 58' 00.0" S
-76.96667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 20' 00.0" E
162.33333°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
42 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MD09 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
1-Jan-1958

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