Palais glacier
| Palais glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ S , 161 ° 19 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ferrar glacier | |
The Palais Glacier is a wide and 13 km long glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows north between the Wilkniss Mountains and the Colwell Massif to the Ferrar Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1995 after the US glaciologist Julie Michelle Palais (* 1956), which in five campaigns 1978-1989 at Dome Charlie and the Mount Erebus worked, since 1991, the glaciological program for polar regions of the National Science Foundation and has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names since 1994.
Web links
- Palais Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Palais Glacier on geographic.org (English)