Glasser glacier
| Glasser glacier | ||
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| location | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Lachman Crags | |
| length | 1.5 km | |
| width | ⌀ 0.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 52 '36 " S , 57 ° 51' 56" W | |
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The Glasser Glacier is a 1.5 km long and 500 m wide glacier on the Ulu Peninsula in the northwest of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It flows west from an ice dome on Lachman Crags .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2015. It is named after the geographer Neil F. Glasser (* 1966) from Aberystwyth University , who carried out important research on the Ulu Peninsula.
Web links
- Glasser Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)