Name details

Scrivener Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114335

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 small tributary glacier flowing in a southeasterly direction for 7km from the vicinity Mount Morrison to the north side of Mackay Glacier, immediately west of Mount Allan Thomson, in Victoria Land. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MD08

Named For

Charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition (Terra Nova expedition, BrAE), 1910-13. Possibly named for Charles Scrivener, Australian surveyor who established the site for Canberra - Thomas Griffith Taylor was intimately involved in the establishment of the Federal Capital, publishing The Physiography of the Proposed Federal Territory at Canberra in 1910.

Location

Latitude:
76° 56' 48.6" S
-76.94684°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
161° 37' 31.6" E
161.62544°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
979 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 17_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:
1-Jan-1958

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