Hoseason Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Hoseason Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A glacier, at least 26 km long, which flows northwards into the sea about 19 km to the west of Brxka Island. Plotted from oblique air photography taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Skotviktangen (The Stack Bay Tongue).
It was renamed in honour of R. Hoseason of ANARE who perished on a field trip at Heard Island in 1952. The feature was first visited by an ANARE sledging party led by Robert Dovers in 1954.
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