Ketchum Glacier
| Ketchum Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Scaife Mountains and Latady Mountains | |
| length | 80 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 0 ′ S , 64 ° 27 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Gardner Inlet | |
The Ketchum Glacier is an approximately 80 km long glacier on the Lassiter Coast in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an easterly direction between the Scaife Mountains and the Latady Mountains to Gardner Inlet .
He was discovered during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne . Ronne named him after Gerald Ketchum (1908-1992), who was involved as commander of the icebreaker USCGC Burton Island as part of Operation Windmill on a mission for Ronne's expedition.
Web links
- Ketchum Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ketchum Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 849 (English).