Mendeleev Glacier
| Mendeleev Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hoelfjella | |
| length | 16 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 55 ' S , 14 ° 33' E | |
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The Mendeleev Glacier ( Russian Ледник Менделеева Lednik Mendelejewa ) is a 16 km long glacier in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . In the Hoelfjella, it drains the northern part of the Payer group with a north-easterly direction of flow .
Aerial photographs and measurements by a Soviet Antarctic expedition (1960–1961) were used to map it. It is named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Iwanowitsch Mendelejew (1834–1907).
Web links
- Mendeleyev Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mendeleyev Glacier on geographic.org (English)