Guard glacier
| Guard glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 1 ′ S , 62 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Murrish Glacier | |
The Guard Glacier is a wide glacier on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an easterly direction along the southern edge of the Parmelee Massif and flows into the Murrish Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the biologist Charles L. Guard, who worked with David E. Murrish in three campaigns of the United States Antarctic Research Program between 1972 and 1975 to investigate peripheral vascular control mechanism in birds of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Guard Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Guard Glacier on geographic.org (English)