Crume glacier
| Crume glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Ommanney Glacier | |
The Crume Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the Pennell coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows in an easterly direction into the Ommanney Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1970 after William R. Crume, who was responsible for equipment maintenance for the VX-6 squadron on McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze in 1968.
Web links
- Crume Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crume Glacier on geographic.org (English)