Holt glacier
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 Map of the Bear Peninsula with the Holt Glacier (center right) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 40 ′ S , 110 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Amundsen lake | |
The Holt Glacier is a large glacier on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . On the Bear Peninsula, it flows in an easterly direction between the Grimes Ridge and Jones Bluffs to Lake Amundsen , which it reaches in the form of a floating glacier tongue south of Goepfert Bluff .
A first position determination was based on aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947) from January 1947. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Joseph V. Holt, a member of the flight department of the United States Navy in Antarctica from 1965 to 1967.
Web links
- Holt Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Get Glacier on geographic.org (English)