Jacka glacier
| Jacka glacier | ||
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| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| length | 1.3 km | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Indian Ocean | |
The Jacka Glacier is a 1.3 km long glacier on Heard Island . It flows from Hayter Peak in a north-easterly direction and ends opposite Cape Vanhöffen in the form of a glacier break
The US seal hunter HC Chester roughly mapped it in 1860 when it was operating in the waters around Heard Island. Scientists of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions carried out measurements in 1948 and named it after the physicist Fred J. Jacka (1925-1992), who was involved.
Web links
- Jacka Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jacka Glacier on geographic.org (English)