Gallup Glacier
| Gallup Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 9 ′ S , 177 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Gallup Glacier is a 20 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows in the Queen Maud Mountains in an easterly direction between Mount Rosenwald and Mount Black to the Shackleton Glacier , into which it joins north of Matador Mountain .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Frederick S. Gallup Jr. (1921-1984) of the United States Navy , commanding officer of the VX-6 flight squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1965.
Web links
- Gallup Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gallup Glacier on geographic.org (English)