Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/17272
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishSayce GlacierU.S. Board on Geographic Names   
PlaceType Glacier 
Latitude 65° 3' 0" S (-65.05°)  
Longitude 62° 54' 57.6" W (-62.916°)  
Source U.S. Board on Geographic Names, available online at http://geonames.usgs.gov
Notes Belgica information (en): Glacier flowing into Flandres Bay immediately N 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 B.J. Sayce (1839-1895), English photographer who, with W.B. Bolton, invented the collodion emulsion process of dryplate photography, which displaced wet collodion in 1864. http://geonames.usgs.gov    
Relations 
Part of  Graham Land (Peninsula)  [view hierarchy]   
Adjacent to  Pelletan Point (Point)  [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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