Holoviak glacier
| Holoviak glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 21 ′ S , 72 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Mendelssohn Inlet | |
The Holoviak Glacier is a glacier on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . On the Beethoven Peninsula, it flows west to the Mendelssohn Inlet .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs from the United States Navy from 1967 to 1968 and Landsat photographs from 1972 and 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier after Judy C. Holoviak, technical editor the Antarctic Research Series published by the American Geophysical Union from 1964 to 1977 .
Web links
- Holoviak Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Holoviak Glacier on geographic.org (English)