Jackson Glacier
| Jackson Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | McDonald Heights | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 47 ′ S , 135 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Siniff Bay | |
The Jackson Glacier is a 16 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . It flows north from McDonald Heights and flows into Siniff Bay on the Hobbs Coast .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1974 after the US physicist Bernard Vernon Jackson (* 1942), scientific director of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1971.
Web links
- Jackson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jackson Glacier on geographic.org (English)