Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/17262
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishGoodwin GlacierU.S. Board on Geographic Names   
PlaceType Glacier 
Latitude 65° 6' 57.6" S (-65.116°)  
Longitude 62° 51' 57.6" W (-62.866°)  
Source U.S. Board on Geographic Names, available online at http://geonames.usgs.gov
Notes Belgica information (en): Glacier flowing W into Flandres Bay southward of Pelletan Point on the W coast of Graham Land. Charted by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900), American pastor who invented the first transparent nitrocellulose flexible photographic roll-film in 1887. http://geonames.usgs.gov    
Relations 
Part of  Graham Land (Peninsula)  [view hierarchy]   
Flows into  Flandres Bay (Bay)  [view hierarchy]   
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Edit history Last edited on 2007-12-17 08:38:19 by De Hauwere Nathalie
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