Joughin Glacier
| Joughin Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 44 ′ S , 62 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wright Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Joughin Glacier is a glacier on the Lassiter Coast of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . East of the Watson Peaks, it flows in a south-westerly direction to Wright Inlet .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2008 after the US electrical engineer Ian Joughin, a pioneer in the use of interferometry in synthetic aperture radar to determine glacier dynamics and topography in Antarctica and Greenland since the early 1990s.
Web links
- Joughin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Joughin Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ian Loughin. Information on the homepage of the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington (accessed February 8, 2018).