Kalesnik glacier
| Kalesnik glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 4 ′ S , 41 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
The Kalesnik Glacier ( Russian Ледник Калесника Lednik Kalesnika ) is a glacier in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . It lies north of the Panzarini Hills in the Argentina Range of the Pensacola Mountains and flows into the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf .
Russian scientists named it after the Soviet geographer Stanislaw Wikentjewitsch Kalesnik (1901–1977).
Web links
- Kalesnika, lednik in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)