Coulter Glacier
| Coulter Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Havre Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 19 ′ 31 ″ S , 71 ° 48 ′ 35 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Kolokita Cove | |
The Coulter Glacier is an 8 km long and steep glacier on the Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the Havre Mountains in a southerly direction to Kolokita Cove , a side bay of Lasarew Bay .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used by the British geodesist Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1980 after R. W. Coulter, captain of the USNS Alatna in three Operation Deep Freeze campaigns between 1965 and 1969.
Web links
- Coulter Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coulter Glacier on geographic.org (English)