Hedblom Glacier
| Hedblom Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 34 ′ S , 162 ° 24 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Tripp ice tongue | |
The Hedblom Glacier is a glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . From the Endeavor Massif in the Kirkwood Range of the Prince Albert Mountains it flows between Mount Creak and Tito Peak in an easterly direction and flows into the Tripp ice tongue .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1999 after Earland E. Hedblom (1914-1982) of the United States Navy , medical officer of the so-called Task Force 43 in the first Deep Freeze operation between 1955 and 1956.
Web links
- Hedblom Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hedblom Glacier on geographic.org (English)