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Larter Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Larter Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Glacier about 50 km long and up to 20 km wide, flowing West into Pine Island Bay between Mount Moses and Siren Rock to the North and Webber Nunatak, Mount Manthe and Wold Nunatak to the South.
Named for Dr Robert Larter, marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey from 1987. His research applied seismic reflection, marine magnetic, swath bathymetry and side-scan sonar data to understanding late Quaternary ice sheet history, glacial geomorphology and glacial/glacial-marine processes. He worked in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica from 2005 and was Principal Investigator on the Thwaites Offshore Research project (THOR) of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, from 2018. Awarded the British Polar Medal 2009.
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