Flynn Glacier
| Flynn Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 31 ′ S , 159 ° 21 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Starshot glacier | |
The Flynn Glacier is a 15 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from Mount Nares in the Churchill Mountains in an easterly direction to the Starshot Glacier , which it reaches south of the Kelly Plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Commander William F. Flynn of the United States Navy , who headed the Bravo Special Forces mobile construction battalion at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1957.
Web links
- Flynn Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Flynn Glacier on geographic.org (English)