Bowers Glacier
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 72 ° 37 ′ S , 169 ° 3 ′ E | |
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drainage | Tucker Glacier |
The Bowers Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it flows along the west side of Mount Northampton in a northerly direction to the Tucker Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the American meteorologist Chester H. Bowers, senior US representative on the Hallett Station in 1962.
Web links
- Bowers Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bowers Glacier on geographic.org (English)