Gutenberg glacier
| Gutenberg glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 58 ′ S , 158 ° 32 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Starshot glacier | |
The Gutenberg Glacier is a 13 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Holyoake Range of the Churchill Mountains, it flows northwest between Mount Hubble and Mount Richter to the Starshot Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the German seismologist Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960), who was involved in 1935 in the development of the Richter scale to determine the strength of earthquakes.
Web links
- Gutenberg Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gutenberg Glacier on geographic.org (English)