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)
Ketchum Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Ketchum 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:
flowing E into Gardner Inlet, Lassiter Coast, was seen from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, and surveyed at its mouth by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947; called Irvine Gardner Glacier after Irvine C. Gardner (Gardner Inlet, q.v.), while the name Cape Ketchum was applied to the N extremity of Smith Peninsula (Cape Fiske, q.v.), after Cdr Gerald L. Ketchum, USN, commanding USS Burton Island and Commodore of Task Force 39, which broke a passage through the ice to extricate the RARE ship Port of Beaumont from Marguerite Bay in February 1948 (AGS map, 1948). The latter name, in the form Ketchum Glacier, was subsequently transferred to the present feature (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357, p.372 and 391; USHO chart 6638, 1955; USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1975, p.4; BAS 500P sheet SS 17-20/SE, 1-DOS 1981). Gardner Glacier, as rejected name (USBGN, 1949, p.32). Lednik Ketchema (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The glacier was photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67.
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