Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Heap Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Heap Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
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:
A glacier 17 km long flowing north-eastward to Mulock Glacier, just east of Henry Mesa. Mapped from air photographs taken by the US Navy. Named by USACAN after J.A. Heap, a member of the University of Michigan-Ross Ice Shelf Studies party, 1962-63, now with the Polar Regions Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.
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