Name details

Weatherwax Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 134212

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 glacier which occupies the elevated basin south of Mount Barnes in Kukri Hills, Victoria Land. It drains southeast from 800m elevation and terminates in a narrow glacial snout on rock bluffs 200m above New Harbour. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-MF10

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (2000) after Allan T. Weatherwax, physicist, Institute of Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, who conducted investigations of the atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and several of the Automated Geophysical Observatories (AGOs) located on the Antarctic plateau. Completed 10 field seasons in Antarctica, 1988-89 through 1998-99. (Proposed by Theodore J. Rosenberg.)

Location

Latitude:
77° 38' 18.5" S
-77.63848°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
163° 37' 14.3" E
163.62065°
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Altitude:
682 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MF10 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-Feb-2001

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