Aiken glacier
| Aiken glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ S , 163 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Aiken Creek | |
The Aiken Glacier is a small glacier between the Von Guerard Glacier and the Wales Glacier on the northern slope of the Kukri Hills in East Antarctic Victoria Land .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 based on the name of the Aiken Creek , the headwaters of which the glacier represents, after the American hydrologist George Richard Aiken, who carried out field research on the river system of the United States Geological Survey between 1987 and 1991 Lake Fryxell was involved.
Web links
- Aiken Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aiken Glacier on geographic.org (English)