Cordini glacier
| Cordini glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 57 ′ S , 62 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Cordini Glacier is a wide glacier in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the area around Mount Bailey in an easterly direction between Lewis Point and James Nunatak to the Wilkins coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the Argentine geoscientist Isaías Rafael Cordini (1902-1966), author of several treatises on geology and ice development on the Antarctic Peninsula and in the region around the Weddell Sea .
Web links
- Cordini Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cordini Glacier on geographic.org (English)