Name details

Forbes Glacier

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 459

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

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:

Narrative

A glacier about 22 km west of Mawson in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Brygga (The Wharf). Renamed after A Forbes of ANARE who perished on a field trip on Heard Island in 1952.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 36' 54.0" S
-67.61500°
Accurate to 50m
Longitude:
62° 21' 50.0" E
62.36389°
Accurate to 50m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images


©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998
Catalogue id
3423A5
Photographer
Dixon, Grant

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Geoscience Australia coastline
Source Identifier:
AAT_Coastline_2003
Source Scale:
1:10000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
28-Nov-1955

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