Falkenhof glacier
| Falkenhof glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 2 ′ S , 172 ° 5 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Snakeskin Glacier | |
The Falkenhof Glacier is an 11 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows from the area around Tricorn Mountain in a westerly direction to the Snakeskin Glacier , which it reaches northwest of Mount Clarke .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Jack Jerome Falkenhof (* 1931), a meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1963.
Web links
- Falkenhof Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Falkenhof Glacier on geographic.org (English)