Line glacier
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location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 72 ° 59 ′ S , 167 ° 50 ′ E | |
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drainage | Borchgrevink Glacier |
The Line Glacier is a glacier in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . It flows from the southern part of the eastern slopes of the Malta Plateau in an easterly direction to the Borchgrevink Glacier , which it reaches between Collins Peak and Mount Alberts .
It was mapped from surveys of the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Kenneth Line, engineer on the glaciological team of the United States Antarctic Research Program to study the Roosevelt Island (1967-1968).
Web links
- Line Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Line Glacier on geographic.org (English)