Meyer Desert (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Meyer Desert (The name as it would appear on a map)
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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:
A remarkable snow free shelf of about 50 square miles in area, at the northern exremity of the Dominion Range near the confluence of the Beardmore and Mill Glaciers. It is a cold desert swept continually by high winds and covered by dolerite pebbles eroded and glazed by wind blown dust. Surveyed and named by the Southern Party for the NZGSAE, 1961-62, for Dr George Meyer, Chief Scientist for the USARP during 1960-62, who led a field party into this area in the summer of 1961/62.
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