Good glacier
| Good glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 12 ′ S , 177 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
 Map sheet The Cloudmaker from 1965; the GOOD GLACIER in the northeastern map district aims directly at the northeast corner |
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The Good Glacier is a wide glacier on the Dufek coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It flows from the eastern slopes of the Hughes Range between Mount Brennan and Mount Waterman in a northeasterly direction to the Ross Ice Shelf , which it reaches east of Mount Reinhardt .
He was discovered during an overflight between February 29 and March 1, 1940 during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941). The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , head of this expedition, named it after Vice Admiral Roscoe Fletcher Good (1897–1973) of the United States Navy , who had supported Operation Highjump (1946–1947) with equipment, which was also led by Byrd .
Web links
- Good Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Good Glacier on geographic.org (English)