Conger Glacier
| Conger Glacier | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 2 ′ S , 103 ° 33 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
The Conger Glacier is a glacier on the Knox Coast of Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It flows 8 km east of the Glenzer Glacier in a northerly direction to the eastern part of the Shackleton Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1955 after Richard Russell Conger (1921–2003), chief aerial photographer for the US operation Windmill (1947–1948), who was also involved in the construction of astronomical observation stations by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Coast to the Budd coast .
Web links
- Conger Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Conger Glacier on geographic.org (English)