Lieske glacier
| Lieske glacier | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 5 ′ S , 156 ° 50 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Hatherton Glacier | |
The Lieske Glacier is a glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it drains the northern slopes of Mount Olympus and flows between the ridges of Johnstone Ridge and Dusky Ridge to the Hatherton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the US meteorologist Bruce J. Lieske, who wintered at the Little America V research station in 1957 .
Web links
- Lieske Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lieske Glacier on geographic.org (English)