Il-Polo Glacier
| Il-Polo Glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 50 ′ S , 74 ° 54 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Publications Ice Shelf | |
The Il Polo Glacier is a small glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It flows north between the Polar Times Glacier and the Polar Research Glacier to the Publications Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it using aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named the glacier after the magazine Il Polo (Italian for The Pole ) of the Instituto Geografico in Forlì .
Web links
- Il Polo Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Il Polo Glacier on geographic.org (English)