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)
Moffett Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Moffett 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 glacier, about 5 miles wide and 20 miles long, flowing in a north-easterly direction into Amundsen Glacier, between Mts Ellsworth and Breyer, in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered by the Byrd AE, 1928-30, when Byrd was on his South Polar flight in November 1929. Named by him for Rear Admiral William A Moffett, USN, first chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy Department.
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