Nylen Glacier
| Nylen Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 41 ′ S , 161 ° 29 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Pearse Valley | |
The Nylen Glacier is a narrow glacier in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it flows between the Schlatter and Fountain glaciers in a southerly direction into the Pearse Valley .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 2004 after the geologist Thomas H. Nylen of Portland State University , who was involved in the study of the mass balance of glacier ice in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1993 and 2003 as part of the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Nylen Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nylen Glacier on geographic.org (English)