Acosta glacier
| Acosta glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Acosta Glacier is a 3 km long glacier on the West Antarctic Thurston Island that flows north just east of Dyer Point .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Alex V. Acosta (* 1942), computer and graphics specialist at the United States Geological Survey , with whose help high-resolution satellite maps of the Antarctic continent were created.
Web links
- Acosta Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Acosta Glacier on geographic.org (English)