Koski glacier
| Koski glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 11 km | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 17 ′ S , 167 ° 15 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Mill Glacier | |
The Koski Glacier is an 11 kilometer long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It drains the east-central ice cap of the Dominion Range , flows north and parallel to the Vandament Glacier and flows into the Mill Glacier immediately southeast of Browns Butte .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Raymond J. Koski, engineer with the United States Antarctic Research Program for the establishment of several routes from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station between 1962 and 1965.
Web links
- Koski Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Koski Glacier on geographic.org (English)