Kamb glacier
| Kamb glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Condit glacier | |
The Kamb Glacier is a sweeping and 6 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it flows northeast from Fogle Peak to the Condit Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the American glaciologist Barclay James Kamb (* 1958) from the California Institute of Technology , who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program, particularly on the studies of the West Antarctic ice sheet and the flow velocities there Ice currents was involved.
Web links
- Kamb Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kamb Glacier on geographic.org (English)