Nereson glacier
| Nereson glacier | ||
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| location | Siple Island , Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 124 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Getz Ice Shelf | |
The Nereson Glacier is an 8 km long glacier on the Siple Island off the Bakutis coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It drains the north side of the island and flows into the Getz Ice Shelf .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2003 after the US glaciologist Nadine A. Nereson from the University of Washington , who had been dealing with ice movements in Antarctica since the 1990s and then focused on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet .
Web links
- Nereson Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nereson Glacier on geographic.org (English)