Cunningham Glacier
| Cunningham Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 16 ′ S , 173 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| particularities | Canyon glacier | |
The Cunningham Glacier is a glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows in a northeasterly direction and joins the Canyon Glacier 8 km north of Gray Peak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after 1966 after Willard Eugene Cunningham Jr. (* 1936), cook at the McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960 and at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1963.
Web links
- Cunningham Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cunningham Glacier on geographic.org (English)