Donnellan Glacier
| Donnellan Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 36 ′ S , 85 ° 48 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Nimitz glacier | |
The Donnellan Glacier is a steep valley glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains from high ice masses at Fukushima Peak on the summit plateau of the Vinson massif westwards along the north side of Mount Slaughter to the Nimitz glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2006 after the US geophysicist Andrea Donnellan (* 1964) from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , who in the mid-1990s was involved in research projects on the use of GPS data to study deformations of the earth's crust in southern California and in the Antarctic was involved.
Web links
- Donnellan Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Donnellan Glacier on geographic.org (English)