Krout glacier
| Krout glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Gough glacier | |
The Krout Glacier is a 6.5 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows from the northern slopes of the Prince Olav Mountains between Mount Sellery and Mount Smithson to the Gough Glacier , which it reaches immediately east of Mount Dodge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Walter L. Krout, a transportation officer in the United States Navy as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Krout Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krout Glacier on geographic.org (English)