Edwards Glacier
Edwards Glacier | ||
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Usarp Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ′ S , 160 ° 30 ′ E | |
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The Edwards Glacier is a glacier in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains, it drains the eastern slopes of the Daniels Range between the Thompson Spur and the Schroeder Spur .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1970 after Lloyd Norman Edwards (born 1937), geologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on of McMurdo Station from 1967 to 1968.
Web links
- Edwards Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Edwards Glacier on geographic.org (English)