Edisto glacier tongue
| Edisto glacier tongue | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bunger Hills | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 10 ′ S , 100 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Edisto Canal | |
The Edisto glacier tongue is a glacier tongue on the northwestern edge of the Bunger Hills in Wilkesland, East Antarctica . It occupies the southwestern part of the Edisto Canal in the Highjump Archipelago . The glacier tongue is a common seaward extension of the Apple Glacier and the Scott Glacier .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1955, together with the channel of the same name, after the USCGC Edisto , one of the ships in Operation Highjump.
Web links
- Edisto Ice Tongue in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Edisto Ice Tongue on geographic.org (English)