Baldwin Glacier (Antarctica)
| Baldwin Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 6 ′ S , 177 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Baldwin Glacier is a large glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It flows in the Queen Maud Mountains starting with a large glacier break at the terrain level west of Mount Rosenwald in a mainly eastward direction to the Shackleton Glacier , into which it joins south of Mount Heekin .
Participants in Operation Highjump (1946–1947), undertaken by the United States Navy , discovered him during an overflight on February 16, 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after George E. Baldwin Jr. of the United States Marine Corps , who during worked as a photographer on this flight to the geographic South Pole.
Web links
- Baldwin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baldwin Glacier on geographic.org (English)