Aster Glacier
| Aster Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 35 ′ S , 85 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Thomas Glacier | |
The Aster Glacier is a glacier in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows from the eastern slope of Mount Craddock between Elfring Peak and the Willis Ridge ridge in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains through to the Thomas Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the US geophysicist Richard Craig Aster (* 1960) from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , who was involved in seismic studies on Mount Erebus on the East Antarctic Ross Island from 1996 to 2002 .
Web links
- Aster Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aster Glacier on geographic.org (English)