Name details

Stuckless Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114469

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 broad glacier in the southwest part of Black Island, Ross Archipelago. It flows southwest between Rowe Nunataks and Cape Beck to Moraine Strait, McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1999) after John S. Stuckless, Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb (later U.S. Geological Survey), who, in several seasons from 1972-73, investigated the geochemistry of McMurdo volcanic rocks, correlating samples from several Ross Island sites with DVDP core samples obtained in McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Location

Latitude:
78° 15' 37.2" S
-78.26033°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
166° 15' 07.4" E
166.25205°
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Altitude:
305 m
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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_34 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:
4-Nov-1999

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