Polar Times Glacier

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

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

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Place ID: 11414
Name ID: 602

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 flowing north-east just east of Mt. Caroline Mikkelsen in Princess Elizabeth Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47).Named after the Polar Times, a polar journal published by the American Polar Society of New York.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
69° 53' 00.0" S
-69.88331°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
74° 33' 00.0" E
74.55000°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Unknown
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
22-Jul-1959

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