Glenzer Glacier
| Glenzer Glacier | ||
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| location | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 58 ′ S , 103 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Ice Shelf | |
The Glenzer Glacier is a glacier on the Knox coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It flows 8 km west of the Conger Glacier in a northerly direction to the eastern part of the Shackleton Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer Gardner Dean Blodgett (* 1925) mapped it in 1955 using aerial photographs of the American Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1955 after Hubert Glenzer Jr. (1924–2008), a pilot in the US American Operation Windmill (1947–1948), who was also involved in the construction of astronomical observation stations by the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Coast to the Budd coast .
Web links
- Glenzer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Glenzer Glacier on geographic.org (English)