Dick Glacier
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 Topographic map sheet with the Dick Glacier (bottom, left of center) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ S , 175 ° 50 ′ W | |
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The Dick Glacier is an 11 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows from Mount Campbell in a westerly direction to the Shackleton Glacier , which it reaches immediately north of the Taylor Nunatak .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Alan L. Dick of the United States Navy , a member of the VX-6 flight squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Dick Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dick Glacier on geographic.org (English)