Aitkenhead Glacier
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Aitkenhead Glacier (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a Script error: No such module "convert". long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Alectoria Island).Template:Sfn
<templatestyles src="Template:TOC limit/styles.css" />
Location
Aitkenhead Glacier is in Graham Land on the south coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It descends in a southeast direction from the Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel opposite Alectoria Island. Nearby features include Tufft Nunatak to the north and Simpson Nunatak and Mount Roberts to the south.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Mapping and name
Aitkenhead Glacier was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Neil Aitkenhead, a FIDS geologist at Hope Bay (1959–60).Template:Sfn
Nearby features
Nearby features include, from west to east: Template:Copernix
Mount Roberts
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. A dark, mostly ice-free rock peak with a flat, sloping top, Script error: No such module "convert". high, which is isolated from the Detroit Plateau to the west and lies Script error: No such module "convert". south of Aitkenhead Glacier. First charted by the FIDS, 1945, and named for D.W. Roberts, Manager of the Falkland Islands Company in 1945, who was of assistance to the expedition.Template:Sfn
Mancho Buttress
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. An ice-covered buttress rising to Script error: No such module "convert".Template:Sfn high on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau. Situated Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Baley Nunatak. Precipitous and partly ice-free southwest slopes. Surmounting Aitkenhead Glacier to the southwest and south. Named after Mancho Peak in Rila mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.Template:Sfn
Baley Nunatak
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. A rocky hill rising to Script error: No such module "convert".Template:Sfn high on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier. Situated in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress, Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Hitar Petar Nunatak and Script error: No such module "convert". north-northwest of Mount Roberts. Named after the settlement of Baley in Northwestern Bulgaria.Template:Sfn
Hitar Petar Nunatak
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. A rocky hill rising to Script error: No such module "convert".Template:Sfn high on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel, next south of the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier. Situated Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Mount Roberts, Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Baley Nunatak and Script error: No such module "convert". south of Tuff Nunatak. Named after the Bulgarian folkloric hero Hitar Petar ("Sly Peter").Template:Sfn
Tufft Nunatak
Script error: No such module "Coordinates".. A small nunatak Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Mount Bradley. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Ronald W. Tufft of FIDS, a member of the reconnaissance party for the Detroit Plateau journey in February 1957.Template:Sfn
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Sources
<templatestyles src="Refbegin/styles.css" />
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Template:Include-USGov
Template:Using Antarctic REMA Explorer
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Template:Cite scar2
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Template:Cite scar2
- Template:Cite scar2
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".