MacNamara Glacier
| MacNamara Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 24 ′ S , 64 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Foundation ice stream | |
The MacNamara Glacier a glacier in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it flows northeast between the Thomas Hills and the Anderson Hills to the Foundation Ice Stream .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy in the years from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names him named in 1968 by Noble Everett MacNamara (* 1937), an exchange scientists of the United States Antarctic Program on the Soviet Molodyoshnaya Station in the winter of 1967.
Web links
- MacNamara Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- MacNamara Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 981 (English).