Kovacs glacier
| Kovacs glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 11 ′ S , 49 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Support Force Glacier | |
The Kovacs Glacier is a glacier in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it flows on the southeast side of the Lexington Table in an east-northeast direction to the Support Force Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1979 after Austin Kovacs, who headed the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) team from 1973 to 1974 to explore this area and the region around McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Kovacs Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kovacs Glacier on geographic.org (English)