Cline glacier
| Cline glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 ′ S , 62 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Odom Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Cline Glacier is a large glacier on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-easterly direction on the eastern flank of Mount Jackson between the Schirmacher massif and the Rowley massif to Odom Inlet .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1976 after David R. Cline, a biologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program , who participated in the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions between 1968 and 1969.
Web links
- Cline Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cline Glacier on geographic.org (English)