Nikitin Glacier
| Nikitin Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 48 ′ S , 75 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Stange-Sund | |
The Nikitin Glacier ( Russian Ледник Афана́сия Ники́тина Lednik Afanassija Nikitina ) is a glacier on the English coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It flows east of the Lidke Ice Stream in a northerly direction to Stange Sound .
The Academy of Sciences of the USSR named it in 1987 after the Russian traveler Afanassi Nikitin († 1472), who had traveled to Africa and India between 1466 and 1472 .
Web links
- Nikitin Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nikitin Glacier on geographic.org (English)