Gillespie Glacier
| Gillespie Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 11 ′ S , 175 ° 12 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The Gillespie Glacier is a small glacier in the East Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows immediately southwest of Mount Kenyon from the western slopes of the Cumulus Hills in the Queen Maud Mountains to the Shackleton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the US meteorologist Lester F. Gillespie, who worked at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962 .
Web links
- Gillespie Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gillespie Glacier on geographic.org (English)