Jensen Glacier
| Jensen Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 5 ′ S , 170 ° 48 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Snakeskin Glacier | |
The Jensen Glacier is a 16 kilometer long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows between the Supporters Range and the Lhasa Nunatak in a northerly direction to the Snakeskin Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Kenard H. Jensen (* 1935), a meteorologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1963.
Web links
- Jensen Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jensen Glacier on geographic.org (English)