SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Forbes Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 4798
Name ID: 459

Feature type: Glacier

Origin

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

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Forbes Glacier (Russia)

Narrative

A glacier about 22 km west of Mawson in Mac.Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-37) and called Brygga (The Wharf). Renamed after A Forbes of ANARE who perished on a field trip on Heard Island in 1952.

Named For

Location

Latitude:

67° 36' 54.0" S

-67.61500°

Accurate to 50m

Longitude:

62° 21' 50.0" E

62.36389°

Accurate to 50m

Altitude:

Not recorded

Unknown precision

Images

©AAD, Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1998

Catalogue id: 3423A5
Photographer: Dixon, Grant

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Geoscience Australia coastline

Source Identifier:

AAT_Coastline_2003

Source Scale:

1:10000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Geoscience Australia

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

28-Nov-1955

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