Kreitzer glacier
| Kreitzer glacier | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grove Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 22 ′ S , 72 ° 36 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Amery Ice Shelf , Southern Ocean | |
The Kreitzer Glacier is a glacier in Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . It flows from the Grove Mountains in a north-westerly direction between the Jennings Promontory and the Reinbolt Hills in the eastern part of the Amery Ice Shelf .
The American cartographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) mapped it in 1952 using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy during Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Roscoe named it after William Rutherford Kreitzer (1918-2007), flight commander of one of the three crews who take aerial photographs of the coast between 14 ° and 164 ° east longitude during Operation Highjump .
Web links
- Kreitzer Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kreitzer Glacier on geographic.org (English)