Allison Glacier

This article describes the glacier in East Antarctica Victoria Land. For the glacier of the same name on the island of Heard in the Indian Ocean, see Allison Glacier (Heard) .

Allison Glacier
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location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 16 ′  S , 161 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 78 ° 16 ′  S , 161 ° 55 ′  E
drainage	Skelton Glacier

The Allison Glacier is a glacier that flows from the northern flank of Mount Huggins along the western slopes of the Royal Society Range to the Skelton Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after Lieutenant Commander John Kenneth Allison of the United States Navy , commander of the squadron VX-6, which wintered at McMurdo Station in 1959 .

Web links

• Allison Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Allison Glacier on geographic.org (English)