Cassidy Glacier
| Cassidy Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| length | 11 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 46 ′ S , 160 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Taylor Glacier | |
The Cassidy Glacier is an approximately 11 km long and 3 km wide glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in a northeastern direction between the Depot Nunatak and the northwestern end of the Quartermain Mountains in the upper section of the Taylor Glacier .
The area of the glacier was first described by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after William A. Cassidy of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science at the University of Pittsburgh , who between 1976 and 1990 participated in thirteen United States Antarctic Program expedition teams to collect Antarctic meteorites in the Ross Dependency had directed.
Web links
- Cassidy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cassidy Glacier on geographic.org (English)