Name details

Bindschadler Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 139620

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 in the northwest part of Royal Society Range, Victoria Land, flowing northwards between Table Mountain and Platform Spur to join Emmanuel Glacier via a number of small steep icefalls. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MG09

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1992 after glaciologist Robert A. Bindschadler of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1983 a principal investigator for U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet including dynamics of ice streams in the Siple Coast area, their interaction with the Ross Ice Shelf, and the role of polar ice sheets in global climate change.

Location

Latitude:
77° 57' 37.8" S
-77.96049°
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Longitude:
162° 09' 41.0" E
162.16140°
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Altitude:
1626 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
LINZ AntTopo50 series
Source Identifier:
MG09 : Edition 1.01 Published 2013
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:
28-Sep-1992

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