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)
Northeast Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Northeast 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 SW into Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, between Debenham Islands and Stonington Island, was surveyed by BGLE in 1936 (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432); further surveyed and used as a sledge route by USAS in 1940; so named because it lay north-east of the USAS "East Base" on Stonington Island (Dyer, map, c. 1941; Black, 1945, p.7; Mason, 1950a, p.145; APC, 1955, p.16; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955); resurveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1946. North East Glacier (Butson, 1949, p.199). Sodabread Slope, referring to a steep slope on the sledge route near the head of the glacier, the name being descriptive of the snow texture (Walton, 1955, p.86). An Argentine refuge hut, called "Yapeyú" after the birthplace of Gen. J. de San Martín, was established at the head of the glacier, 4 November 1955 (Thomas, 1957a, p.523). Northeast Glazier [sic] (FIG, 1960, p.69). North-east Glacier (BA, 1961, p.69). "Refugio Yapeyú" (Pierrou, 1970, p.732).
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