Gerasimou glacier
| Gerasimou glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Gerasimou Glacier is an 8 km long and steep-walled glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows into the Shackleton Glacier across from the Gemini Nunatakkern .
A team from Texas Tech University who explored the Shackleton Glacier between 1964 and 1965 named it after Helen Gerasimou (* 1925), who was responsible for the staff in the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Gerasimou Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gerasimou Glacier on geographic.org (English)