David Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 3362
Name ID: 526

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:

Narrative

A glacier mainly in the Ross Dependency, about 13 km in width and of undetermined length. It has many icefalls, seracs and crevasses and flows east into the southern part of the Drygalski Ice Tongue in Victoria Land. The glacier was discovered by the South Magnetic Polar Party of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09, in November 1908, and named after the leader of that party, Professor T W Edgeworth (later Sir Edgeworth) David, of Sydney University.

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Location

Latitude:
75° 20' 00.0" S
-75.33331°
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Longitude:
160° 00' 00.0" E
160.00000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
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

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Dec-1976

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