Doyle Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Doyle Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
2 km long glacier flowing east between Walker Point and Pygoscelis Point, Elephant Island. Named after Professor Frederick J. Doyle (1920 - 2013), who played a key role in the development of photogrammetric mapping from space platforms. Leader of NASA Apollo Orbital Science Photographic Team from 1969, developing camera systems used to map the surface of the moon, and for later missions to Mars, Venus and Mercury. Developed sensors for early Landsat systems and large format cameras for the Space Shuttle.
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