This page presents the geographical name data for
Kovacs Glacier in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division
Feature Name
(see definition):
Kovacs Glacier
Feature Class
(see definition):
Glacier
Country Code
(see definition): AQ (Antarctica)
Feature ID
(see definition):
8182
Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
83° 11' 00" S
Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds
(see definition):
049° 15' 00" W
Primary Latitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-83.1833333
Primary Longitude in decimal degrees
(see definition):
-49.25
Elevation
(see definition):
No data
Decision Year
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No data
Description
(see definition):
Glacier on the SE side of Lexington Table, flowing ENE into Support Force Glacier in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains (q.v.). Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1979 after Austin Kovacs, leader of the 1973-74 U.S. Antarctic Research Program (USARP) - Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) survey party (with G. Erlanger and G. Abele) in this area; also worked in the McMurdo Sound area.
Date Created
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No data
Date Edited
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No data
NOTE: The information regarding
Kovacs Glacier in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of
Kovacs Glacier information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about
Kovacs Glacier should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.