Lucchitta glacier
| Lucchitta glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hudson Mountains | |
| length | 30 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 24 ′ S , 99 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Pine Island Bay | |
The Lucchitta Glacier is a 30 km long glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows south from the Hudson Mountains to Pine Island Bay on the Walgreen Coast .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the German astrogeologist Bärbel Kösters Lucchitta (* 1938), a pioneer in the field of measuring glacier flow velocities in Antarctica using aerial and satellite images.
Web links
- Lucchitta Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lucchitta Glacier on geographic.org (English)