Benbrook Glacier
| Benbrook Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Flynn Glacier | |
The Benbrook Glacier is an 8 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains, it flows south-southeast from Egress Peak into the Carlstrom Foothills to the Flynn Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 2003 after the US physicist James R. Benbrook (* 1959) from the University of Houston , who worked for the United States Antarctic Program from 1985 to 1995 on studies of the ionosphere and magnetosphere at the geographic South Pole was involved.
Web links
- Benbrook Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Benbrook Glacier on geographic.org (English)