Hyde Glacier

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Hyde Glacier
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Edson Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 79 ° 48 ′  S , 83 ° 42 ′  W Coordinates: 79 ° 48 ′  S , 83 ° 42 ′  W
Hyde Glacier (Antarctica)
Hyde Glacier
drainage Union Glacier

The Hyde Glacier is a small glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows in an easterly direction through the Edson Hills of the Heritage Range and flows into the Union Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it as part of the mapping of the Ellsworth Mountains from 1961 to 1966 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after William H. Hyde, an ionosphere researcher who worked on the American station Little America V on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1958 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hyde Glacier ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.