Name details

Mitchell Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139541

Feature type: Glacier

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 descends steeply from the northern end of Chaplains Tableland in northeast Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing east-northeast between Transit Ridge and Ibarra Peak for approximately 12km to join the Blue Glacier drainage south of Granite Knolls. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MG10

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1992 after J. Murray Mitchell (1928-90), climatologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau and successor agencies, 1955-86. Project scientist on climatic change, ESSA, 1965-74, senior research climatologist, NOAA, 1974-86 member, Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1978-82 (Chairman of Committee on Polar Regions and Climatic Change, 1979-84), member, Advisory Committee to the Division of Polar Programs, NSF, 1988-90

Location

Latitude:
77° 57' 22.3" S
-77.95619°
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Longitude:
163° 04' 38.2" E
163.07727°
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Altitude:
954 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MG10 : Edition 1.00 Published 2012
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
LINZ
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
26-Mar-1993

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