Baronick Glacier
| Baronick Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 36 ′ S , 161 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Skelton Glacier | |
The Baronick Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it flows 10 km southwest of Mount Cock in a westerly direction to the Skelton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after the orderly officer Michael P. Baronick (1923-2000) of the United States Navy squadron VX-6, who was stationed at the Williams Air Operating Facility of McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1956 and belonged to the three-person team command of the October 28, 1956 the Beardmore glacier at 84 ° 56 ' S , 166 ° 0' O held erected air base of operations.
Web links
- Baronick Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Baronick Glacier on geographic.org (English)