Foster glacier
| Foster glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 24 ′ S , 162 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Koettlitz glacier | |
The Foster Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it flows 6 km south of Mount Kempe in a southeast direction to the Koettlitz Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after Major James Foster of the United States Marine Corps , assistant air operations officer of Task Force 43 of the United States Navy in Antarctica in 1960.
Web links
- Foster Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foster Glacier on geographic.org (English)