Isbrecht Glacier
| Isbrecht Glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 14 ′ S , 100 ° 46 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Isbrecht Glacier is a small glacier in the south of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows south between the Cox Glacier and the Hale Glacier to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after JoAnn Isbrecht (1942-2010) from the United States Geological Survey , who was involved in the creation of high-resolution maps of the Siple Coast from AVHRR and Landsat images in the 1990s .
Web links
- Isbrecht Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Isbrecht Glacier on geographic.org (English)