Church glacier
| Church glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 51 ′ S , 167 ° 34 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Leander Glacier | |
The Church Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in the Admiralty Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows south along the western flank of Church Ridge to Leander Glacier , which it reaches northwest of Shadow Bluff .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the ridge using its own surveys and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Brooks D. Church, laboratory technician at McMurdo Station from 1966 to 1967 and from 1967 to 1968 during the Antarctic summer months.
Web links
- Church Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Church Glacier on geographic.org (English)