Calkin Glacier
| Calkin Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 46 ′ S , 162 ° 17 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Taylor Glacier | |
The Calkin Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Kukri Hills, it flows north to the lower end of the Taylor Glacier .
Participants of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the American geologist Parker Emerson Calkin (1933-2017) from Tufts University , who carried out two summer campaigns in the area of the glacier as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program between 1960 and 1962 .
Web links
- Calkin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Calkin Glacier on geographic.org (English)