Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Arago Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Arago Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Arctowski Peninsula, Danco Coast, flowing S into Andvord Bay, was photographed from the air by FIDASE and surveyed from the ground by FIDS from Danco Island in 1956-57; named after Dominique-Franc ois-Jean Arago (1786-1853), French geodesist, who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapping in 1839, in association with the names of pioneers of photogrammetry grouped in this area (APC, 1960, p.2; BA chart 3566, 25.viii.1961). Glaciar Arago (Argentina. AA, 1991 p.3)
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