Laizure glacier
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 Map of the Oates Coast with the Laizure Glacier (top left) |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 15 ′ S , 158 ° 7 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow lake | |
The Laizure Glacier is a wide glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the Oates coast , it flows into the Somow Sea immediately west of Drake Head .
Australian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs of the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947) and those made between 1959 and 1962 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The United States Geological Survey mapped it in more detail using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Lieutenant David Hunter Laizure (* 1943), navigator of an LC-130 Hercules at Operation Deep Freeze in 1968.
Web links
- Laizure Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Laizure Glacier on geographic.org (English)