Bachtold glacier
| Bachtold glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 8 ′ S , 162 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Cotton glacier | |
The Bachtold Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from Mount Chaudoin in the Gonville and Caius Range , where it drains the broad slopes of the Killer Ridge and Red Ridge ridges, northwards to the lower section of Cotton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2007 after Harry Wesley Bachtold (* 1926), who was a member of the Seabees construction brigade of the United States Navy in the 1950s, involved in the construction of the Antarctic stations Little America V on the Ross Ice Shelf south of the Bay of Whales and Byrd in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica .
Web links
- Bachtold Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bachtold Glacier on geographic.org (English)