Name details

Heap Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140340

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 20km long flowing in a direct line northeastward to Mulock Glacier, just east of Henry Mesa and East of Mount Kosko, on the Hillary Coast.

Named For

Named by United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after John A. Heap, a member of the University of Michigan-Ross Ice Shelf Studies party, 1962-63, later with the Polar Regions Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy.

Location

Latitude:
79° 04' 52.5" S
-79.08124°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
159° 13' 16.2" E
159.22118°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
927 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 19_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point. REMA orthometric height significantly lower than old USGS 250k map contours

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
20-May-1965

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