Blackwelder Glacier
| Blackwelder Glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 3 km | |
| width | ⌀ 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Blackwelder Glacier is a Kar glacier between Salmon Hill and the Hobbs Glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land .
It was examined by the American glaciologist Troy L. Péwé (1918-1999) from Arizona State University in Operation Deep Freeze (1957-1958) and named after Eliot Blackwelder (1880-1969), former head of the geological faculty at Stanford University .
Web links
- Blackwelder Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blackwelder Glacier on geographic.org (English)