BANZARE Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 18720
Name ID: 137063

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

Named after the British - Australian - New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1930-31 led by Sir Douglas Mawson. The name was coined by Captain John King Davis, and is the acronym of the expedition title. The expedition made an outstanding contribution to both the contemporary knowledge of the Antarctic continent and to the oceanography of the region, demonstrating the existence of a continuous undersea land-platform around at least a third of Antarctica, reinforcing the theory that there was a continent beneath the ice plateau, rather than a series of islands cemented by the polar ice cap.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 45' 30.0" S
-66.75833°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
108° 17' 45.0" E
108.29583°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( E157_RGB_321_1X ***)
Source Scale:
1:30000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS - United States Geological Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
1-Aug-2010

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