Cambridge Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 2224
Name ID: 123228

Feature type: Glacier (12)

Origin

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:

Narrative

A wide sheetlike glacier between the Convoy Range and Coombs Hills, draining S into the Mackay Glacier between Mount Bergen and Gateway Nunatak. Surveyed in 1957 by the N.Z. Northern Survey Party of the CTAE, 1956-58. Named by them after Cambridge University, where many of the various Antarctic scientific reports have been written.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
76° 57' 00.0" S
-76.95000°
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Longitude:
160° 31' 00.0" E
160.51667°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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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:
1-Jan-1962

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