Ferrigno glacier
| Ferrigno glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 8 ′ S , 161 ° 59 ′ E | |
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The Ferrigno Glacier is a sweeping glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the north side of Rampart Ridge in the Royal Society Range, it flows from Mount Lynch and Bishop Peak into the vicinity of The Spire .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1995 after the US geologist Jane G. Ferrigno (* 1941) from the United States Geological Survey , a specialist in the evaluation of satellite images for the creation of maps.
Web links
- Ferrigno Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ferrigno Glacier on geographic.org (English)