Harwell Glacier
| Harwell Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 171 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Gough glacier | |
The Harwell Glacier is a 5 km long and steep-walled glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows from the northern slopes of the Prince Olav Mountains immediately east of Mount Smithson to the upper section of the Gough Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Thomas W. Harwell of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , who was involved in transportation operations as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Harwell Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harwell Glacier on geographic.org (English)