Acosta Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 17439
Name ID: 135839

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.

Narrative

Glacier about 2 mi long flowing N from Thurston Island just E of Dyer Point. Named by US-ACAN after Alex V. Acosta, USGS, Flagstaff, Arizona, Computer and graphic specialist, part of the USGS team that compiled the 1:5,000,000-scale Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer satellite image maps of Antarctica and the 1: 250,000-scale Landsat TM image maps of the Siple Coast area in the 1990s.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
71° 58' 00.0" S
-71.96667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
100° 55' 00.0" W
-100.91667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
1-Jan-2003

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