Murrish Glacier
| Murrish Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 25 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 2 ′ S , 61 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Gain glacier | |
The Murrish Glacier is a 25 km long glacier on the Black Coast of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in an east-northeast direction to Stockton and Abendroth Peak , where it merges with the northern flank of the Gain Glacier before the latter flows into the Weddell Sea across from Morency Island .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after the biologist David E. Murrish (* 1937) of the United States Antarctic Research Program , who between 1972 and 1975 headed a group to study the peripheral vascular control mechanism in birds on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Web links
- Murrish Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murrish Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ David E. Murrish ( Memento of December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of Binghamton University (English, accessed December 27, 2015).