Incheon Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 20427
Name ID: 140288

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

Glacier about 75 km long, the central of three glaciers flowing from west of Kohler Range into Getz Ice Shelf, between Wright Island and Martin Peninsula.

Named For

Named for the 2018 meeting of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which met in Incheon to consider the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. This was the first time that the three IPCC WGs worked together to produce a report in an interdisciplinary manner.

Location

Latitude:
74° 36' 36.0" S
-74.61000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
116° 47' 24.0" W
-116.79000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Landsat-8 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey
Source Identifier:
https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/
Source Scale:
1:30 m resolution
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
UK APC
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
14-Jun-2021

Related information

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