Gressitt glacier

Gressitt glacier
Topographic map
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
length	72 km (roughly estimated)
Coordinates	71 ° 30 ′  S , 161 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 71 ° 30 ′  S , 161 ° 15 ′  E
drainage	Rennick Glacier

The Gressitt Glacier is a wide and 72 km long glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Usarp Mountains it flows from an area between the Daniels Range and the Emlen Peaks northeast to the Rennick Glacier , which it reaches north of the Morozumi Range .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after the American biologist Judson Linsley Gressitt (1914–1982), head of the study six research campaigns, particularly in the Ross Sea area between 1959 and 1966.

Web links

• Gressitt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Gressitt Glacier on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 662 (English).