Name details

Petkovic Glacier

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

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

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United States Gazetteer Id 136947

Feature type: None recorded.

Origin

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:

Narrative

A steep valley glacier, 3 miles long, in the central part of the Mawson Escarpment. It flows westward, midway between Rofe Glacier and Dolinnyy Glacier, to enter Lambert Glacier. Plotted from ANARE aerial photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named by the Australian Antarctic Names and Medal Committee after J.J. Petkovic, geophysicist at Mawson in 1971 and a member of the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1972.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
72° 58' 12.0" S
-72.97000°
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Longitude:
68° 13' 48.0" E
68.23000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

new adopted name (R.Payne, 21.1.10)

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
20-Oct-2009

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