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Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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Weldon Glacier (USA) | 77° 12' 11.0" S | 31° 50' 25.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 133553
Place ID: 15872
A glacier entering the southeast part of Weddell Sea midway between Vahsel Bay and Hayes Glacier. The glacier was discovered in the course of a U.S. Navy LC-130 reconnaissance flight over the coast of Coats Land, Nov. 5, 1967, and was plotted by USGS from photographs obtained at that time. Named by US-ACAN (1969) after Don W. Weldon, USN, photographer on that flight. |
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Weldon Ice Stream (GBR) | 77° 12' 11.0" S | 31° 50' 25.0" W | Watercourse |
Name ID: 111878
Place ID: 15872
flowing NW into Weddell Sea, NE of Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, was photographed from the air by USN, 5 November 1967, and roughly mapped from air photographs; named Weldon Glacier after Don W Weldon, USN, photographer on the flight ([in 77°15'S 30°05'W] AGS map, 1970; [in 77°05'S 31°30'W] Alberts, 1977, p.48; [co-ordinates corrected] USBGN, 1980, p.922); delineated from US Landsat imagery of February 1974 [76°33'S, 29°20' W]; further delineated from US Landsat imagery of 2002 Weldon Ice Stream (APC, 1982, p.3). |
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