Gardiner glacier
| Gardiner glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartz Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 1 ′ S , 131 ° 48 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Reedy Glacier | |
The Gardiner Glacier is a glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows from the Watson Escarpment in an easterly direction along the southern flank of the Quartz Hills to the Reedy Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Richard D. Gardiner, a construction electrician at Byrd Station in 1962 .
Web links
- Gardiner Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gardiner Glacier on geographic.org (English)