Gaussiran glacier
| Gaussiran glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 0 ′ S , 159 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Darwin glacier | |
The Gaussiran Glacier is a glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the eastern part of the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows from a saddle shared with the Merrick Glacier in a north-easterly direction to the Darwin Glacier , which it reaches between the Cranfield Icefalls and the Nebraska Peaks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Lieutenant Charles Douglas Gaussiran (* 1944), pilot of a squadron of the United States Navy VX-6 flight squadron in a field camp on the Darwin Glacier between 1978 and 1979.
Web links
- Gauss Iran Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gaussiran Glacier on geographic.org (English)