Judith Glacier
| Judith Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains | |
| length | 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 29 ′ S , 158 ° 49 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Byrd glacier | |
The Judith Glacier is a 15 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it flows from the area around Mount Hamilton in a north-easterly direction to the Byrd Glacier , which it reaches east of Mount Tuatara .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 after Commander Joseph Henry Judith Jr. (1920-2004) of the United States Navy , senior officer on the icebreaker USCGC Edisto in Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Judith Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Judith Glacier on geographic.org (English)