Lord Glacier
| Lord Glacier | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Coulter Heights | |
| length | 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 138 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Hull Bay | |
The Lord Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It flows from the Coulter Heights to the Ruppert coast and flows into Hull Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 2003 after the US geophysicist Neal E. Lord of the University of Wisconsin , who has been studying the behavior of ice flows in West Antarctica since the late 1980s .
Web links
- Lord Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lord Glacier on geographic.org (English)