Amos glacier
| Amos glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Amos Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It flows from Bettle Peak in a southeast direction to Blue Glacier , which it reaches southeast of Hannon Hill .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1992 after Larry Leon Amos, civil engineer of the United States Geological Survey , who was involved between 1969 and 1970 in determining the position of the geographic South Pole , which was last carried out in 1956 .
Web links
- Amos Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Amos Glacier on geographic.org (English)