Jacobel Glacier
| Jacobel Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 50 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 44 ′ S , 148 ° 17 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
The Jacobel Glacier is a 50 kilometer long glacier on the Saunders coast of Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It flows south of the Hershey Ridge into the Sulzberger Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the American physicist Robert W. Jacobel (* 1946) from St. Olaf College , who had explored the Antarctic since the 1980s.
Web links
- Jacobel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jacobel Glacier on geographic.org (English)