Gillockbreen
| Gillockbreen | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sør Rondane | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 24 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gillockbreen is an 8 km long glacier in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica . In the Sør Rondane Mountains, it flows from Walnumfjella in a northerly direction to west of Smalegga Ridge .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it in 1957 using aerial photographs taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). They named the glacier after Lieutenant Robert Hugh Gillock (1919-1995) of the United States Navy , navigator on the flights of Operation Highjump to create aerial photographs between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude.
Web links
- Gillock Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gillock Glacier on geographic.org (English)