Chavez Glacier
| Chavez Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 55 ′ S , 101 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Cranton Bay | |
The Chavez Glacier is a 16 km long glacier on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows south from the Canisteo Peninsula to Cranton Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after Pat S. Chavez Jr. of the United States Geological Survey , deputy head of the group responsible for creating high-resolution AVHRR maps of Antarctica in the late 1990s.
Web links
- Chavez Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chavez Glacier on geographic.org (English)