Blankenship Glacier
| Blankenship Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 59 ′ S , 161 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Blankenship Glacier is a steep glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it flows north between La Count Mountain and the Bubble Spur to the Ferrar Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the US geophysicist Donald D. Blankenship from the Geophysical and Polar Research Center of the University of Wisconsin , who worked several times between 1978 and 1982 at Dome C station in East Antarctica and from 1989 for the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University .
Web links
- Blankenship Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blankenship Glacier on geographic.org (English)