Small glacier
Small glacier | ||
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Map from 1988, Klein Glacier in the far southwest |
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location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
Coordinates | 86 ° 48 ′ S , 150 ° 0 ′ W | |
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drainage | Scott Glacier |
The Klein Glacier is a wide glacier in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains it flows from the vicinity of the polar plateau to the northwest to the Scott Glacier , which it reaches immediately south of the La Gorce Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Lieutenant Commander Verle Wesley Klein (* 1933), pilot of the VX-6 squadron in Operation Deep Freeze the years 1966 and 1967.
Web links
- Klein Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Klein Glacier on geographic.org (English)