Long glacier
| Long glacier | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 30 ′ S , 96 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Abbot Ice Shelf | |
The Long Glacier is a 13 km long glacier in the southeastern part of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows 22 km west of the Harrison Nunatak in a southerly direction to the Abbot Ice Shelf in Peacock Sound .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy between 1960 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Fred A. Long Jr., aircraft engineer with the US Navy's VX-6 squadron wintered on the Antarctic station Little America V in 1957 and worked in other places in Antarctica in the summer months at the turn of the year 1960/61 and 1962/63 .
Web links
- Long Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Long Glacier on geographic.org (English)