Name details

Meserve Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 113904

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

One of the most prominent of several hanging glaciers on the south wall of the Wright Valley, between Hart Glacier and Bartley Glacier. Meserve East Stream and Meserve West stream flow from the end of the glacier to Onyx River on the valley floor. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME09

Named For

Named by the US Deep Freeze III, 1956-57, for William Meserve of Waltham Mass. USA, one of Robert Nichols' geological assistants in Antarctica in the 1959/60 season under the National Science Foundation auspices.

Location

Latitude:
77° 31' 19.3" S
-77.52203°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 18' 28.3" E
162.30785°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
828 m
Unknown precision

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_35 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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