Kiel glacier
| Kiel glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| length | 26 km | |
| width | ⌀ 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 8 ′ S , 154 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prestrud Inlet | |
The Kiel Glacier is a 26 km long, 16 km wide and strongly fissured glacier on the Shirase coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the southwest of the Edward VII Peninsula, it flows directly east of the Rockefeller Mountains into Prestrud Inlet .
Aerial photographs of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) and other American research trips were used to map it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1960 after Max R. Kiel (1933-1956) of the Seabees , who died on March 5, 1956 when his tractor was about 30 km west of this glacier when setting up a route to the Byrd Station fell into a crevasse .
Web links
- Kiel Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kiel Glacier on geographic.org (English)