Litz glacier
| Litz glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 7 ′ S , 99 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Peale inlet | |
The Litz Glacier is a glacier in the north-central part of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows from the area around Smith Peak and Litz Bluff in a northeast direction to the western section of Peale Inlet , which it reaches north of Guy Peaks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after A. K. Litz, first officer on watch and photographer who took aerial photographs of Thurston Island and the neighboring mainland coast as part of Operation Highjump (1946–1947) carried out by the United States Navy .
Web links
- Litz Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Litz Glacier on geographic.org (English)