Hamilton Glacier (Edward VII Peninsula)

Hamilton glacier
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location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
length	8 kilometers
Coordinates	77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W
drainage	Ross Sea

The Hamilton Glacier is an 8 km long glacier in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it flows south of Cape Colbeck on the Shirase coast into the Ross Sea .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the glaciologist Gordon Hamilton (1966-2016) from the University of Maine , who had studied the movement of the West Antarctic ice currents since the 1980s .

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