Aitkenhead Glacier
| Aitkenhead Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 57 ′ S , 58 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Aitkenhead Glacier is a glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an east-southeast direction from the Detroit Plateau to the Prince Gustav Canal immediately north of Alectoria Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Neil Aitkenhead (* 1936), geologist of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on Hope Bay from 1959 to 1960.
Web links
- Aitkenhead Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aitkenhead Glacier on geographic.org (English)