Thwaites Glacier Tongue (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Thwaites Glacier Tongue (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Tongue (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A glacier tongue, about 20 mi wide and 40 mi long, which is the seaward extension of Thwaites Glacier into the Amundsen Sea. It enters the sea about 30 mi E of Mount Murphy in Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation HighJump in January 1947. Named by US-ACAN for Fredrik T. Thwaites, glacial geologist, geomorphologist and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin.
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