Name details

Skelton Névé

Skelton Névé (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Skelton Névé  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114396

Feature type: Neve (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

The immense névé of the Skelton Glacier, lying on the west side of the Royal Society Range. It is almost circular in outline, 52km east to west, and has an area of over 2000km². It is bounded on the east by the western ridges of the Royal Society Range; on the south by the outlet of the Skelton Glacier, the Worcester Range, Escalade Peak, and the north end of the Boomerang Range, on the west by low nunataks and a continuous low ridge mostly inundated by ice moving east into the névé, and on the north by Mount Feather, the source of the Ferrar Glacier, and Pivot Peak.

Named For

Surveyed by New Zealand parties of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 1956-58, from January 1957 onwards. It was named by them for the Skelton Glacier.

Location

Latitude:
78° 20' 00.0" S
-78.33333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
160° 00' 00.0" E
160.00000°
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Altitude:
1392 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 19_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-Jul-1959

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