Kronstadt Glacier
| Kronstadt Glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 43 ′ S , 71 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Kronstadt Glacier ( Russian Ледник Кронштадтский Lednik Kronschtadtski , English Kronshtadtskiy Glacier ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It flows in a west-northwest direction and flows 8 km southeast of the Pickering Nunatak into the Lambert Glacier .
Soviet scientists named it in 1987 after Kronstadt , a town and former fortress on the Baltic island of Kotlin off Saint Petersburg in Russia .
Web links
- Kronshtadtskiy Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kronshtadtskiy Glacier on geographic.org (English)