Bindschadler Glacier
| Bindschadler Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 58 ′ S , 162 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Emmanuel Glacier | |
The Bindschadler Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northwestern part of the Royal Society Range, it flows between Table Mountain and Platform Spur in a northerly direction to the Emmanuel Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1992 after the US glaciologist Robert Alan Bindschadler from the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA , from 1983 senior scientist of the United States Antarctic Research Program to studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet , including the ice streams in the area of Siple Coast , their interaction with the Ross Ice Shelf and the role of the Antarctic ice sheet in global warming .
Web links
- Bindschadler Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bindschadler Glacier on geographic.org (English)