Cairns Glacier

Cairns Glacier
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location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 34 ′ S , 86 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 78 ° 34 ′ S , 86 ° 0 ′ W
drainage	Nimitz glacier

The Cairns Glacier is a glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in a westerly direction between the Branscomb Glacier and the Tułaczyk Glacier to the Nimitz Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the American zoologist Stephen Douglas Cairns (* 1949), head of the invertebrate department at the National Museum of Natural History from 1985 to 2006 and a member of the American Geophysical Union's publication committee on Antarctic research from 1990 until 1995.

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