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Channel Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Channel 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:
E-W through glacier between Neumayer Channel and Gerlache Strait, NE Wiencke Island, was roughly charted by BeAE; further charted by DI in 1927 and named descriptively, possibly following the usage of whalers (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.7; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). Ventisquero Canal [translation of English name] (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947). Primera Garganta [=first pass], in association with Thunder Glacier (q.v.) (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.270d). The glacier was resurveyed by FIDS from Norsel in 1955. Glaciar Canal (Argentina. MM chart 129, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.234). Glaciar Channel, Ventisquero Channel, as rejected forms (Argentina. MM, 1957b, p.2).
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