Kannheiser glacier
| Kannheiser glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 101 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Kannheiser Glacier is a 6 km long glacier on Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows 19 km east-southeast of Cape Flying Fish in a southerly direction to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
A first position determination of the glacier was made using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in December 1946 during Operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1960 after Lieutenant Commander William R. Kannheiser (1922-1999), helicopter pilot aboard the icebreaker USS Glacier , who was exploring during the US Navy exploration voyage into the Bellingshausen Sea in February 1960 of Thurston Island and the creation of aerial photographs.
Web links
- Kannheiser Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kannheiser Glacier on geographic.org (English)