Jezek glacier
| Jezek glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 59 ′ S , 162 ° 13 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Emmanuel Glacier | |
The Jezek Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range it flows from the southeast flank of the Platform Spur in a northeast direction to the Emmanuel Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the US geophysicist Kenneth C. Jezek, who worked at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1983 to 1989 , doing several on-site studies in several campaigns the Antarctic ice sheet and sea ice in the areas of Dome Charlie , the Ross Ice Shelf and the Weddell Sea and from 1989 worked at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University .
Web links
- Jezek Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jezek Glacier on geographic.org (English)