Mitchell Glacier
| Mitchell Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 57 ′ S , 163 ° 3 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Blue Glacier | |
The Mitchell Glacier is a steep glacier in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northeastern part of the Royal Society Range it flows from the Chaplains Tableland in an east-northeast direction between the Transit Ridge and the Ibarra Peak to the Blue Glacier , which it reaches in the vicinity of the Granite Knolls .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after the US climatologist J. Murray Mitchell (1928–1990) from the United States Weather Bureau and its successor organizations, who was active in various research programs in Antarctica from 1955 to 1986 .
Web links
- Mitchell Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mitchell Glacier on geographic.org (English)