Andersen Creek (Antarctica)
Coordinates: 77 ° 37 ′ S , 162 ° 54 ′ E
The Andersen Creek is a 1.5 km long meltwater river in the Taylor Valley of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows southwest along the east side of the Canada Glacier and flows into the northeast corner of Lake Hoare .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1996 after Dale T. Andersen, limnologist at NASA , who had set up a camp at the mouth of the river in 1978 for the purpose of limnological studies and was involved in the first dives in the lakes of the Antarctic dry valleys .
See also
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 54 (English)
Web links
- Andersen Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Andersen Creek on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dale T. Andersen , personal website (accessed June 9, 2016).