Anandakrishnan Glacier
| Anandakrishnan Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 32 ′ S , 140 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Anandakrishnan Glacier is a 24 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows north of the Strauss Glacier on the Ruppert Coast into the Southern Ocean .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State University with a focus on Antarctic glaciology and tectonics .
Web links
- Anandakrishnan Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anandakrishnan Glacier on geographic.org (English)