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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Lerchenfeld Glacier (RUS) | 78° 00' 00.0" S | 34° 00' 00.0" W | Glacier |
| Name ID: 119050 Place ID: 8352 | |||
| Lerchenfeld Glacier (GBR) | 77° 55' 00.0" S | 34° 15' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 109806
Place ID: 8352
flowing NW between Bertrab Nunatak and Littlewood Nunataks into Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, was roughly mapped in c. 77°50'S 34°50'W by GAE, 1911-12, and named Graf Lerchenfeld Gletscher, after Count Hugo von und zu Lerchenfeld-Köfering (1843-1925), a supporter of the expedition (Przybyllok, 1913, map p.3). Lerchenfeld Glacier (Stanford, chart, [1923]; [in c. 78°00'S 34°00'W] NGS map, 1957b; BA chart 3176, 15.i.1971; [correctly indicated] APC, 1982, p.3). Lerchenfield [sic] Glacier (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Graf Lerchenfeld Glacier, as rejected form (USBGN, 1949, p.35). Lednik Lerkhenfel'd (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Lerchenfeldv Ledovec (Bártl, 1958, map facing p.144). Lednik Lerkhenfel'da (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Lerchenfeld (Argentina. IGM map, 1966). The glacier was delineated from USLANDSAT imagery of 27 January 1973. |
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| Lerchenfeld Glacier (USA) | 77° 55' 00.0" S | 34° 15' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 127956
Place ID: 8352
A glacier flowing in a west-northwesterly direction between Bertrab Nunatak and Littlewood Nunataks. It coalesces with the southern flank of Schweitzer Glacier before the combined flow discharges into the head of Vahsel Bay. Discovered by the GerAE, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner, who named this feature for Count Hugo von und zu Lerchenfeld-Kofering, supporter of the expedition. |
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| Lerchenfeldgletscher (DEU) | 77° 54' 00.0" S | 34° 25' 00.0" W | Glacier |
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Name ID: 106977
Place ID: 8352
The glacier, passing Bertrabnunatakker in the W and Littlewood Nunataks in the E, is confluencing with Penckgletscher and Schweitzergletscher, all draining the inland ice sheet of Touchdown Hills into Herzog-Ernst-Bucht, Prinzregent-Luitpold-Land, Coats Land; initianally named 'Graf-Lerchenfeld-Gletscher'. Discovered during Deutsche Antarktische Expedition 1911/12 under Wilhelm Filchner. |
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