Lepyochin glacier
| Lepyochin glacier | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mawson Escarpment | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 43 ′ S , 69 ° 58 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Lambert Glacier | |
The Lepjochin Glacier ( Russian Ледник Лепёхин Lednik Lepjochin ) is a 60 km glacier in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It flows from the east flank of the Mawson Escarpment in a north-northwest direction and flows east of the Clemence massif into the east flank of the Lambert Glacier .
Soviet scientists named the glacier in 1987 after the Russian botanist and medic Iwan Iwanowitsch Lepjochin (1740–1802).
Web links
- Lepekhin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lepekhin Glacier on geographic.org (English)