Brandau Glacier
| Brandau Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 54 ′ S , 173 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Keltie glacier | |
The Brandau Glacier is a wide and 15 miles long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows west from the watershed between Haynes Table and Husky Heights to the Keltie Glacier , which it reaches west of the Ford Spur .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Lieutenant Commander James F. "Jim" Brandau (* 1934) of the United States Navy , a pilot of the VX-6 squadron during Operation Deep Freeze from 1964 to 1965.
Web links
- Brandau Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brandau Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 201 (English).