Clarke Glacier (Marie Byrd Land)
| Clarke Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Coulter Heights | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 11 ′ S , 139 ° 6 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Hull Bay | |
The Clarke Glacier is a 13 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows from the Coulter Heights to the Ruppert coast and flows into Hull Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 2003 after the US geophysicist Theodore S. Clarke of the University of Wisconsin , who has been dealing with the behavior of ice flows in West Antarctica since the early 1990s .
Web links
- Clarke Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Clarke Glacier on geographic.org (English)