Turk Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 15060
Name ID: 551

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 small glacier between McIntyre Bluffs and Philpott Bluff on the Mawson Escarpment. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1956, 1960 and 1973. Named after Andrew Turk, surveyor with the ANARE Prince Charles Mountains survey party in 1974.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
73° 21' 09.0" S
-73.35250°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
68° 19' 25.0" E
68.32361°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E133_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
Unknown

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