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)
Borchgrevink Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Borchgrevink Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A large glacier in the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, draining S between Malta Plateau and Daniell Peninsula, and thence projecting into Glacier Strait, Ross Sea, as a floating glacier tongue. Named by the NZGSAE, 1957-58, for Carsten E. Borchgrevink, leader of the BrAE, 1898-1900. Borchgrevink visited the area in February 1900 and first observed the seaward portion of the glacier.
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