Driscoll glacier
| Driscoll glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 21 km | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 42 ′ S , 83 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Union Glacier | |
The Driscoll Glacier is a 21 km long glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the Heritage Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in a south-easterly direction between the Collier Hills and the Buchanan Hills to the Union Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Jerome M. Driscoll, administrative officer in the VX-6 squadron during Operation Deep Freeze of 1965.
Web links
- Driscoll Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Driscoll Glacier on geographic.org (English)