Klebelsberg Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 7616
Name ID: 109641

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

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:

Narrative

flowing NW into Sharp Glacier near the head of Lallemand Fjord, Loubet Coast, was partially surveyed from the E by FIDS from "Stonington Island", 1946-47; in association with the names of glaciologists grouped in this area, named after Raimund von Klebelsberg (1886-1967), Austrian glaciologist; sometime Professor of Geology, Geologiske Institut, Innsbruck; Editor of Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde, 1927-43 and 1949-57; author of Handbuch der Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie (Vienna, 1948-49), a standard textbook (APC, 1955, p.13; BA chart 3570, 21.ix.1957; BAS 250P sheet SQ 19-20/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1978); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
67° 23' 00.0" S
-67.38333°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
66° 15' 00.0" W
-66.25000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
31-Mar-1955

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