Blodgett Iceberg Tongue
| Blodgett Iceberg Tongue | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 5 ′ S , 130 ° 0 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Porpoise Bay | |
The Blodgett Iceberg Tongue (English for Blodgett iceberg tongue ) is a large glacier tongue on the Banzare coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . On the east side of Porpoise Bay , it extends seaward around Cape Morse and Cape Carr .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after the American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925), who worked for the Department of Geography in the United States Department of the Interior in 1955 based on aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) Sketched map of the Antarctic objects between 84 ° and 144 ° east longitude, including the glacier tongue described here.
Web links
- Blodgett Iceberg Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Blodgett Iceberg Tongue on geographic.org