Laktionow glacier
| Laktionow glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Conrad Mountains in Orvinfjella | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 0 ′ S , 9 ° 35 ′ E | |
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The Laktionow Glacier ( Russian Ледник Лактионова Lednik Laktionowa ) is a glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Conrad Mountains of Orvinfjella, it is located southwest of the Henry moraine on the northwest flank of Bjerkenuten .
Russian scientists named him after Alexander Fyodorowitsch Laktionow (1899-1965), Soviet sea ice researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in Leningrad and head of the department there for oceanography, ice forecasts and estuaries from 1927 until his death.
Web links
- Laktionova, lednik in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)