Gildea glacier
| Gildea glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 38 ′ S , 85 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Nimitz glacier | |
The Gildea Glacier is a glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains from the Craddock massif westward between Mount Slaughter and Mount Atkinson to the Nimitz Glacier . It is also fed by the ice masses of the Hammer Col and the southern Vinson massif .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after the Australian mountaineer and polar explorer Damien Gildea (* 1969), who headed several expeditions of the Omega Foundation to the Sentinel Range and Livingston Island between 2000 and 2005. Gildea climbed Mount Craddock over this glacier.
Web links
- Gildea Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gildea Glacier on geographic.org (English)