Darkowski Glacier
| Darkowski Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 52 ′ S , 162 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Darkowski Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the Cathedral Rocks between the Zoller Glacier and the Bol Glacier in a northerly direction to the Ferrar Glacier .
Participants in the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after Lieutenant Leon Stanislaus Darkowski (1917-2009) of the United States Navy , Catholic clergyman of the Naval Air Facility on McMurdo Sound in 1957.
Web links
- Darkowski Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Darkowski Glacier on geographic.org (English)