Giovinco Piedmont Glacier
| Giovinco Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Type | Foreland glacier | |
| width | ⌀ 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 1 ′ S , 176 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Giovinco Piedmont Glacier is a 16 km wide foreland glacier on the Dufek coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency.It slopes gently between the Canyon Glacier and the Perez Glacier in a northerly direction towards the Ross Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Frank A. Giovinco (1915-1972), captain of the USNS Private John R. Towle in Operation Deep Freeze in 1965.
Web links
- Giovinco Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Giovinco Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 630-631 (English).