Name details

Zwally Glacier

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

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

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140341

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 flowing generally northwesterly from its source just north of Pilon Peak for 12.5km, emptying into Ebbe Glacier between Mount Craven and Everett Spur, in the north part of Everett Range. Topographic map (1:250,000): SR 57-58/15, Mount Soza.

Named For

Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for H. Jay Zwally who was in the forefront of glaciological research at the National Science Foundation?s Division of Polar Programs, 1972-1974, managing the initiation of the interdisciplinary Ross Ice Shelf Project, the Greenland Ice Sheet Project, and improved airborne radar mapping of ice sheet thickness. At the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, 1974 ? 2009, he was a primary advocate of satellite laser altimetry for ice sheet mass balance studies, leading to the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) in 2003.

Location

Latitude:
71° 08' 55.3" S
-71.14869°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
164° 52' 19.9" E
164.87220°
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Altitude:
960 m
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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 11_36 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
26-Jan-2012

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