Atkinson Glacier
| Atkinson Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 30 ′ S , 167 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Dennistoun Glacier | |
The Atkinson Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains it flows between the Findlay Range and the Lyttelton Range in a northerly direction to the Dennistoun Glacier .
The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1983 after William Atkinson, mechanic and field research assistant of the geological team of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program , which worked in the area of the glacier between 1981 and 1982 under the direction of Robert Hamish Findlay.
Web links
- Atkinson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Atkinson Glacier on geographic.org (English)