Gatlin Glacier
| Gatlin Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ S , 173 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Gatlin Glacier is an 11 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows between the Cumulus Hills and the Red Raider Rampart in the south flank of the McGregor Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the American meteorologist Harold Oad Gatlin (* 1933), who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Gatlin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gatlin Glacier on geographic.org (English)