Horne Glacier
| Horne Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 10 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Greenwell Glacier | |
The Horne Glacier is a 10 km long valley glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Concord Mountains, it flows in a south-westerly direction from the Everett Range between Mount Works and Mount Calvin to the lower end of the Greenwell Glacier .
It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey and aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Lieutenant Robert P. Horne of the US Navy Reserve Forces, pilot of a Lockheed C -130 for taking aerial photographs of Operation Deep Freeze in 1968 and 1969.
Web links
- Horne Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Horne Glacier on geographic.org (English)