El Sayed Glacier
| El Sayed Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 40 ′ S , 141 ° 52 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Land glacier | |
The El Sayed Glacier is a 24 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows from the northeast slopes of Zuncich Hill in a northeast direction to Land Glacier , which it reaches on the south side of Mount Shirley .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names him named in 1970 after coming out of Egypt originating US oceanographers Sayed Z. El-Sayed (1926 –2005), who participated in the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1967 to 1968 and 1969 to 1970 in the International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expeditions .
Web links
- El-Sayed Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- El-Sayed Glacier on geographic.org (English)