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)
Darwin Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Darwin Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large glacier, 80 miles in lenth which flows from the Darwin Névé on the Polar Plateau in Australian territory. It is 14 miles across at its widest part, narrowing to just over 3 miles and widening again to 10 miles at its mouth. Only the mouth is in New Zealand territory. It lies between the Carlyon Glacier on the north and the Byrd Glacier on the South. Named by the NZ party of the TAE, 1956-58.
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