Canham Glacier
| Canham Glacier | ||
|---|---|---|
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains | |
| Type | Lateral glacier | |
| length | 50 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 49 ′ S , 163 ° 0 ′ E | |
|
||
| drainage | Rennick Glacier | |
The Canham Glacier is a 50 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the northwestern part of the Evans Firnfield between the Alamein Range and the Salamander Range of the Freyberg Mountains to the Rennick Glacier , which it reaches west of Bowers Peak .
The area was mapped through the United States Geological Survey and aerial photography from the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1964 after Lieutenant Commander David W. Canham Jr. (1920–1986), duty officer of the United States Navy's aviation readiness at McMurdo Sound in 1956.
Web links
- Canham Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Canham 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. 277 (English).