Chaos Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Chaos 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 flowing into Ranvik Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37). Photographed by USN Operation Highjump and ANARE. Named by Dr J H Roscoe, after his 1952 study of Op Highjump air photos, due to the disturbed nature of the glacier. Dr Roscoe was photogrammetrist with USN Op Highjump (1946-47) and USN Op Windmill (1947-48).
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