Carlson Glacier
| Carlson Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 24 ′ S , 68 ° 1 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wordie Ice Shelf | |
The Carlson Glacier is a 15 km long glacier in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Fallières coast, it flows between Mount Edgell and the Relay Hills in a northerly direction to the southern part of the Fallières coast. In this southeastern section of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell on the Antarctic Peninsula , the Carlson - together with two other glaciers, formed the now-defunct Wordie Ice Shelf until the 1990s .
The United States Navy took aerial photographs of the glacier in 1966. The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1970 and 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1979 after Burford A. Carlson (* 1929), meteorologist for the US Navy support units in Operation Deep Freeze in 1970 and 1971.
Web links
- Carlson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Carlson Glacier on geographic.org (English)