Bellisime glacier
| Bellisime glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Bellisime Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on Thurston Island off the coast of West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows east of the Myers Glacier in a southerly direction to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Lynda Bess Bellisime (* 1943), as a team member of the United States Geological Survey high-resolution in the 1990s in the creation of map material from AVHRR measurements and based on Landsat satellite images of the Siple Coast was involved .
Web links
- Bellisime Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bellisime Glacier on geographic.org (English)