Exum glacier
| Exum glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Jones Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 30 ′ S , 94 ° 14 ′ W | |
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The Exum Glacier is a small glacier in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Jones Mountains, it flows north between Hughes Point and Bonnabeau Dome .
Participants in a University of Minnesota expedition to the Jones Mountains (1960–1961) mapped and named him. It is named after the American mountaineer Glenn Exum (1911-2000), who trained the team from the University of Minnesota in the rock and ice climbing research campaign that lasted from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Exum Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Exum Glacier on geographic.org (English)