Torlegård Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 19904
Name ID: 138354

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

6 km long glacier to the east of Mount Wilcox, flowing north-west into Square Bay, Fallières Coast, Graham Land. Named after Kennert Torlegård (1937-2016) Professor of Photogrammetry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 1974-2001. He played an important role in the development of photogrammetric data capture for Digital Elevation Models in the 1980s. Secretary General of International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1984-88 and president 1988-92. Chair of the ISPRS working group on data capture for Digital Elevation Models 1980-84.

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Location

Latitude:
67° 57' 00.0" S
-67.95000°
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Longitude:
54° 52' 30.0" W
-54.87500°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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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

request by Adrian Fox, June 2018

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
9-Nov-2016

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