Name details

Trail Glacier

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

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

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 541

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 broken mountain glacier on the southern side of Mount Menzies, about 4 km from the summit. It is about 9 km long and 6 km wide. It runs from a snowfield at about 2,750 m down a steep slope for at least 900 m vertically, then spreads out and merges with the ice cap a few km from the south side of the mountain. The glacier was partly photographed by ANARE aircraft in 1960. First visited by a field party led by D.S. Trail in December, 1961. Named after D.S. Trail, geologist at Mawson in 1961.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 28' 14.2" S
-73.47061°
Accurate to 300m
Longitude:
61° 56' 36.6" E
61.94350°
Accurate to 300m
Altitude:
2700 m
Accurate to 50m

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E132_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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