Lawson Glacier
| Lawson Glacier | ||
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| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 20 ′ S , 167 ° 37 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hearfield Glacier | |
The Lawson Glacier is a glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Cartographers Range of the Victory Mountains, it flows south along the western flank of Hughes Ridge to the Hearfield Glacier
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2009 after Harold Scott Lawson, United States Geological Survey mapmaker from 1978 to 2004, who had been a member of the satellite geodesy team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1985 .
Web links
- Lawson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lawson Glacier on geographic.org (English)