McCuistion Glacier
| McCuistion Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Shackleton Glacier | |
The McCuistion Glacier is a 6 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it flows along the north side of Lubbock Ridge in a westerly direction to Shackleton Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Joshua P. McCuistion (1931-1996), construction machinery operator in the United States Navy , who died on December 22, 1955 when a de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter crashed during the launch phase in the area around the Cape Bird had been injured on Ross Island .
Web links
- McCuistion Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McCuistion Glacier on geographic.org (English)