Name details

Landreth Glacier

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

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

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Bulgaria Gazetteer Id 137066

Feature type:

Origin

This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

The steep 2.3 km long and 600 m wide glacier on the SE side of Imeon Range, Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands. Draining southeastwards from Mount Foster between the side ridges separating it from Rupite Glacier to the N and Dragoman Glacier to the S, and flowing into Ivan Asen Cove on Bransfield Strait. Bulgarian mapping in 2009. Named after the New Zealander Greg Landreth whose team made the first ascent of the island"s summit Mount Foster (2105 m) on 29 January 1996.

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Location

Latitude:
63° 00' 40.0" S
-63.01111°
Accurate to 0m
Longitude:
62° 31' 30.0" W
-62.52500°
Accurate to 0m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Accurate to 0m

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown The coordinates for this place name were derived from Map id 0 - This map does not exist in the SCAR Map Catalogue. in the SCAR Map Catalogue.
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
14-Sep-2010

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